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PHESHNTED BY 



TWENTY 
YEARS AFTER 



TWENTY 
YEARS AFTER 

RECORD AND DIRECTORY 

OF THE 

CLASS OF 1883 

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 



NEW YORK 

COMPILED AND EDITED BY 

THE COMMITTEE 

1904 



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CONTENTS 



Our Presidents Then and Now 
Presidents of the College of New Jersey 
Twenty Years After .... 
A Note by the Secretary 

Class Organization 

Verses Read at the Twentieth Reunion 
Personal Biographies of '83 . 

Ex-Members 

The Twentieth Anniversary Reunion 

Our Lawyers 

The Ministry 

Our Beloved Dead 

Deaths 

'83 Class Songs 

Our Gifts to Alma Mater 

Report of the Memorial Committee 

Class Marriages, Births and Addresses 

Roll and Latest Addresses of Class 



PAGE 

ix 
xii 
xiii 

XV 

xvi 

xvii 

I 

124 

131 
141 

153 

161 

169 
171 
181 

185 
187 
202 



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ILLUSTRATIONS 

PAGE 

Class of '83 Twenty Years After . . . iv 

Our Presidents Then and Now: 

James McCosh, 1883 x 

Woodrow Wilson, 1903 xi 

'83 Headquarters Princeton, June, 1903 . . 130 

The '83 Tent, Princeton, June, 1903 . . 132 



OUR PRESIDENTS 
THEN AND NOW 




PRESIDENT JAMES McCOSH, 1883 




PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON, I9O3 



PRESIDENTS OF THE COLLEGE OF 
NEW JERSEY 



Rev. Jonathan Dickinson 

Rev. Aaron Burr . 

Rev. Jonathan Edvv^ards 

Rev. Samuel Davids, . 

Rev. Samuel Finley, D.D., 

Rev. Jno. Witherspoon, D.D., LL.D. 

Rev. S. Stanhope Smith, D.D., LL.D 

Ashbel Green, D.D., LL.D.,t* . . 

James Carnahan, D.D., LL.D.,f* 

James McLean, D.D., LL.D.,t* 

James McCosh, D.D., LL.D., L.H.D.,t* 

Francis Landey Patton, D.D., LL.D.,t 

Woodrow^ Wilson, LL.D., . 



ACCESSUS. 


EX ITU S. 


April, Oct. 


1747 


1748, 


1757 


Jan., Mar., 


1758 


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I761 


1761, 


1766 


1768, 


1794 


1795, 


1812 


1812, 


1822 


1823, 


1854 


1854, 


1868 


^1868, 


1888 


1888, 
1Q02, 


1902 



* Deceased. 



f Resigned. 



i883— 1903 
TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

STILL to fear God and regard man ; to carry the 
head high, with courage bred by effort and suc- 
cess; to realize that the seed so long since sown 
has come to fruitage; to feel the strength of sturdy 
life in joyous living ; to meet your fellows with es- 
teem and the future with unshaken spirit ; this is to 
live. 

Again to meet the comrades of old days ; to feel 
the boy life quicken in the man ; to kindle with the 
success of others, as if with your own ; to note with 
zest the power of one, the humor of another, the 
attraction of all; to have the heart warm to the old 
hands, the old faces and the old voices; this is to 
love. 

So each, who savored the rollicking sentiment and 
the pensive joviality of '83's Reunion, may well say 

" Ich babe geliebt und gelebte." 



Xlll 



A NOTE BY THE SECRETARY 

IT is with a very keen sense of pleasure that the Secretary 
and the Pubhcation Committee submit to the Class of 
'83 the present Twentieth Anniversary Record. The 
Committee has had the same difficulty which every Com- 
mittee has in securing prompt responses to the various ap- 
peals, and owing to various necessary delays, it was im- 
possible to print the Record as early as was hoped. The 
Committee, however, preferred to have it as complete as 
possible, rather than to send it out with so many men unheard 
from, and so many personal photographs held back. Never, 
in the judgment of the Class Officers, has the Class been so 
thoroughly united, so actively interested, and so loyal to all 
the best traditions and progress of our Alma Mater, as we 
are to-day. The Twentieth Anniversary Reunion was an 
unqualified success from beginning to end, over fifty-five 
men enjoying the hospitality at Class headquarters at one 
or another time during our five days stay. Much of the 
success of this Reunion was due to our far-sighted and en- 
ergetic Class committee. All details for the comfort and 
happiness of the Class were anticipated, and there was a 
Class spirit and a solidarity manifested, which betoken ever 
increasing usefulness, pleasure and power, to the Class in 
the future. 

Cordially yours in '83, 

Edward Huntting Rudd, 

Secretary. 
Dedham, Massachusetts. 



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CLASS ORGANIZATION 

CLASS OFFICERS 
President, OTTO GROUSE 

Vice-President and Treasurer, FRANK C. ROBERTS 
Real Estate Trust Co. Building, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Secretary, EDWARD HUNTTING RUDD 
Dedham, Mass. 

Chaplain and '^ Poet Laureate," 
REV. CHARLES ALEXANDER RICHMOND 

REUNION COMMITTEE 

William Pierson Field William Church Osborn 

William Cooper Proctor Lawrason Riggs 
Charles Alexr. Richmond Henry Grier Bryant 

Chairman 

CLASS RECORD COMMITTEE 

William Parker Finney Robert Davison Petty 
Edward Huntting Rudd Robert Sterling Yard 
William Church Osborn, Chairman 

J I Broadway, New York City 



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VERSES READ AT THE 
TWENTIETH REUNION 

OF THE CLASS OF I 883 

OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 

DEDICATED TO THE FRIENDSHIPS OF THE CLASS 



"Old wine to drink, old books to read, old friends to love.' 
A book whose classic worth the years approve, 

A vintage purpled in a genial clime, 

And mellowed by the kindly touch of Time. 

No new made chance acquaintance of an hour 
A friendship fading like the fading flower, 

Time's shuttle weaves a web of mingled hue. 

But Time's slow loom weaves lasting friendships too. 

Soon learned the comrade's song and freely sung 
And hearts are warm when all the world is young 

And when to you and me — the world grows old. 

Shall friendship's music cease, and hearts grow cold .? 

Four years we shared one life fraternally. 

Dear careless years of happy memory, 
Then parted on the threshold wondering — 

Half fearful what the brooding years should bring. 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

And so each went his way and wrought apart 
Facing his task with strong courageous heart, 

And some have climbed the hill — and won the crest, 
And some have gone to their Eternal Rest. 

And now we gather here, — as children led 

Back to the dear old home where they were bred, 

And see new Princeton with her goodly towers, 
But old and new are one — and both are ours. 

She is our Alma Mater — ours her fame 

And ours the ancient splendor of her name, 
Ours is the beauty of her stately halls. 

And ours the friendships formed within her walls. 

Charles Alex. Richmond. 
Princeton, June g, IQOJ. 



PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES 

OF '83 



PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES 

OF '83 

WILLIAM PATON AGNEW 

A GNEW reports himself an X-ray specialist, but we 
■*■ ^ know he is much more. He has accomplished a 
great deal in photography. He is a member of the 




Princeton Club and lives at Palisades, N. Y. He has 
travelled in this country, Europe and Mexico. 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 




WILLIAM ALEXANDER ANNIN 

Annin married Miss Anna Laurie Wilkins at Rolla, Mo., 
June 27, 1899, and is at present located at Macon, Mo., 
where he is Superintendent of PubHc Schools. He has 
two children: Pauline Elizabeth, born at Booneville, Mo., 
April 8, 1900; John Wilkins, born at Rolla, Mo., June 9, 
1902. John, he hopes, will enter Princeton in September, 
1919, and graduate in '23. 

He says: "The tariff is doing very well, thank you. Better 
let it alone. Capital and labor should learn for their own 
good that they have common interests, and should work 
in harmony. While they are learning that lesson, the in- 



PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

nocent public should be protected from suffering from their 
lack of agreement, by the enforcement of wise laws. Ar- 
bitration should be required. Competition should not be 
throttled by huge combinations. Trusts must be watched: 
our government is for the people. I am proud of what 
McKinley and Roosevelt and their co-workers have done 
in the matter of our new possessions. They took the path 
of duty marked out by Providence. Words cannot ex- 
press my admiration for Roosevelt. I hope and believe 
he will be President for eight years after his present term. 
The mule might as well join the procession with the ele- 
phant, and make it unanimous, Cleveland or no Cleve- 
land. 

"I attend the Presbyterian church usually. Presby- 
terians are very nice people to associate with, but I strongly 
condemn the ecclesiastical bossism by which the Presby- 
terian hierarchy seeks to repress independence of thought 
in her ministry. It is a relic of sixteenth century bigotry 
and intolerance, an abomination in the eyes of God and 
men. Ministers in all churches that adopt that policy may 
well exclaim: 'Progress, progress everywhere, but not a 
drop for us.' 

"My children are my only published books. 'These are 
my works.' I trust they will run through many editions, 
and occupy at least obscure niches here and there in Prince- 
ton's temple of fame. I am a member of a Turnverein. 
Am a K. P., and a Mason. No prizes or honors. Just 
plod along as of yore. I rejoice in the prizes and honors 
won by my classmates, and extend hearty congratulations 
especially to Fred Rutan, who, I hear, is a Ph. D., and a 
lawyer, besides being a minister. Claude Brodhead and 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

I are both rejoicing in the title of D. A. D., his conferred 
recently by a boy. 

"Am a member of St. Louis Alumni Association. 

"Must leave discussion of University questions to those 
better informed. Am opposed to reducing College course 
to three years, and to the elimination of Greek as a required 
study." 

CHARLES H. BONBRIGHT 

"Keeping everlastingly at it brings success." Your 
efforts to reach me as well as other '83 delinquents cer- 




tainly deserve credit. I have no apologies to offer nor 
excuses to make. I have simply neglected to reply. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

To the ordinary business man the time necessary to reply 
to all the ten questions on your printed form cannot easily 
be snatched from the twenty-four short hours in any one 
day. 

Bonbright is manager of the sales department in the vehi- 
cle manufacturing business, and lives at 310 Court St. E. 
Flint, Mich. He married Miss Delia May Windus, May 
15, 1890, and has one child, Carl Windus Bonbright, born 
November 18, 1896, who will enter class of 1918. He is a 
Republican and Presbyterian. 

THOMAS A. C. BAKER 

Baker is successfully engaged in the business of manu- 
facturing upholstery goods at Manayunk, Philadelphia. 
In 1896 he married Miss Emily Curtis, at Englewood, N. 
J. He has no children. 

JOSEPH Y. BRATTAN 

'Tis Brattan's delight 

As of yore to write 
The gossip and news of the day; 

And as editore, 

Down in Baltimore, 
He's steadily winning his way. — Com. 

He has also established for himself a delightful home at 
319 East 22d Street, Baltimore, where his wife, formerly 
Miss Elizabeth Linthicum Hunt, of EUicott City, Md., 
presides, and where two little daughters, Elizabeth Hunt, 
aged 10, and Catherine Warfield, aged 3, multiply his 
happiness. 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

He is interested in the civic life of his city, and to some 
extent participates in it, and, as editor of the Baltimore 
American, exerts a considerable influence on it. He is a 




JOSEPH Y. BRATTAN 

member of the Board of Police Examiners, member of 
the Maryland Historical Society, also the Commonwealth 
and Journalistic Club of Baltimore. His travels are 
bounded by Tampa, Canada and Kansas City. 

REV. CLAUDE ROSS BRODHEAD 

From far away New Mexico come the few lines below 
from one of the most earnest and self-denying of our num- 



PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

ber. In 1902, Claude received an appointment from the 
Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, and was sent to 
Jewett, New Mexico, where has been estabUshed a very valu- 
able mission property, consisting of a well constructed hos- 
pital building, a school building and an industrial building. 




REV. CLAUDE ROSS BRODHEAD 

The station is regarded as one of the most important mis- 
sion fields of the Presbyterian denomination in the west. 
Here is Claude's letter, at all too brief: 

" My dear Edward: 

" Con-twist your questions! Who can answer them glee- 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

fully — many of them, at any rate — save those on whose 
brows the laurel rests? "Titles?" Mine, "Hosteen Do- 
mingo," Mr. Sunday-man. I am among the Navajo In- 
dians, preparing to preach to them the Good News so 
few as yet have heard. My wife, Mary Lombard, died in 
September, 1900, and on the i8th of June, 1902, I married 
Miss Josephine Phelps, M. D., of Germantown, whose help 
and sympathy are endearing her to the Indians in the hos- 
pital work, over which we at present have charge. We wel- 
comed a little home missionary on June 6th, 1903, named 
Leonard Phelps Brodhead — '83's childless millionaires please 
take notice. 

*' I hope to send in ten years or more Navajo braves to line 
up on the football squad. It is fortunate for the Elis that 
the Navajos do not scalp. I have no University question to 
discuss, as Woodrow Wilson settles them all. Bless him! 
Paul Martin, '82, who sends me the Alumni Weekly, and 
Annin, my roommate, are the only links now to Princeton. 
I will order my photograph sent to you, for fear that you 
will again insert the '83 copy! 

"With best wishes for the class and yourself." 

HENRY G. BRYANT 

This is the way they tabulate our honored classmate in 
"Who's Who in America." 

"Bryant, Henry Grier, traveler, explorer; b. Allegheny, 
Pa., Nov. 7, 1859; s. Walter and Ellen A. (Henderson) B.; 
prepared at Phillips Exeter Acad., N. H., 1876-9; grad. 
Princeton, 1883; A. M., 1886; grad. law, Univ. of Pa., 
1886. Explored Grand Falls of Labrador, 1891; 2nd in 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

command Peary Relief Expd'n, 1892; comdr. Peary Auxil- 
iary Expd'n, 1894; comdr. Mt. St. Elias (Alaska) Expd'n, 
1897; pres. Geog. Soc. of Phila., 1897-1900; Fellow Royal 
Geog. Soc. of London; corr. mem. Geog. and Anthrop. 




HENRY G. BRYANT 



Soc, Stockholm; hon. v.-p. Internat. Geog. Congress, Ber- 
lin, 1899. Writer articles: The Grand Falls of Labrador, 
Century, 1892; Report on Peary Auxiliary Expd'n, 1894, 
and papers before Geog. Congresses. Residence: 2013 
Walnut Street. Office : 806 Land Title Bldg., Philadelphia " 

II 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

His last expedition is reported as follows in the Phila- 
delphia Evening Bulletin of April 20, 1904: — 

"After a touring expedition through Cuba and Mexico, 
in which latter country he made the difficult ascent of the 
Popocatepetl volcano, Henry G. Bryant, a prominent mem- 
ber of the Philadelphia Geographical Society, has just 
returned to the city. 

"Mr. Bryant, during his travels, had his camera and a 
large supply of films with him, and brings back a collection of 
interesting pictures. In talking of his trip, Mr. Bryant said : 

" 'I reached Mexico on March 12, and fully resolved 
to ascend Popocatepetl, which is 17,780 feet high, and one 
of the most famous of the Mexican volcanoes. 

" 'I secured two guides and made my first attempt to 
ascend on March 27, but did not reach the top. On April 
8, I started to climb the great height again, and this time 
my efforts were met with success. I did not experience 
such a struggle with rugged conditions as when I climbed 
Mt. St. Elias. At the same time the great height of the 
mountain made me feel the effects of rarefied air and toward 
the last I could only move a few feet without stopping to 
rest. 

Bryant is also Secretary of the American Alpine Club, 
which he helped to form. He was one of the Committee of 
Arrangements of Philadelphia for the Eighth International 
Geographic Congress at Washington, D. C, held in Sep- 
tember, 1904. 

EDWARD B. CARTER 

Carter is one of the very few men of '83 who still clings 
to the ancient but honorable occupation of husbandry. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 




EDWARD B. CARTER 



His Maryland acres respond to his well directed efforts to 
such a degree that he is able to report "good success." 
But that is not the only kind of husbandry he has been 
cultivating in these latter years. Although he toiled away 
in single loneliness for fifteen years, yet patience ever has 
its reward, and now Carter has taken a city girl out to his 
plantation to share his bucolic life. He was married to 
Miss S. H. Scattergood, of Philadelphia, February 21, 1898, 
As to offspring, he has nothing to report for this "Record," 
but wants space reserved in the next one. 

It would have been very gratifying to the class if Carter 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

could have been drawn out on some of the topics of the day, 
but to all the queries of the circular in this direction he 
simply says: "These subjects too old, too well known, and 
too roughly handled for me to fool with." 



PROF. ALBERT P. CARMAN 

Precise and concise, as of old. Carman writes: 
"Mr. Editor: Name, Albert P. Carman; birthplace, 
Woodbury, N. J.; address is University of Illinois, Urbana, 
111., occupation, that of Professor of Physics in the Uni- 
versity of Illinois. 'What success?' An independent 
position, with congenial surroundings, and work which I 
enjoy. 

"Married to Miss Maude W. Straight, at Oak Park, 111., 
on June 21, 1900. We have no children." 



CRAIG COLT 

Memorandum by Osborn. 

"I met Craig November 24, 1903, at the University Club. 
He said he had nothing of great importance to record, but 
that he had spent most of the last ten years travelling pretty 
much all over the world. In his brief stops in New York 
he has no time to do much literary work, and cannot give 
a story of his life. He has got to be a powerful-looking 
man with a heavy mustache and a little scant on the top 
of the head. He expressed great regret at not being able 
to attend the Re-union last spring, owing to his absence from 
the country." 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 




OTTO GROUSE 

Otto Grouse, 15 Exchange Place, Jersey Gity, N. J. 

I am in the law, and have, since March, 1900, held the 
position of Judge of the First District Gourt of Jersey Gity. 
I have also been a member of the State Board of Education 
for about seven years, and for about the same period v^^as 
a special lecturer in the Nev^ York hzw School on New 
Jersey Law. 

15 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

I was married to Christine Shelton Bowen, December 
14, 1897. We have three children, WeUington Shelton 
Crouse, Cornelia Curtis Crouse and Otto Crouse, Jr. 

I am a member of the Jersey City University Club; 
Nassau Club of Princeton and Princeton Club of New^ York. 

Note. — Otto is now living with his family at Tucson, 
Arizona, where he is practicing law. His health is improving 
and he weighs more than he has since graduation. He does 
not, however, think it advisable to return to the East in 1905. 
Osborn saw him in 1904, and has heard from him since. 
Otto thinks better of the East than of Arizona, but he is 
making a place for himself there. As it is a country of great 
possibilities, he will undoubtedly find large openings for his 
abilities. Arizona has large mining and railroad interests 
mainly held in the east, and needing legal talent. The 
population is increasing rapidly with many cultivated peo- 
ple, and the Territory will probably become a State before 
long. Hence Otto's temporary exile may have its consola- 
tions. 

FRANK S. CONOVER 

Conover reports that he is ranching and breeding polo 
ponies with moderate success. He has not married, and 
in reply to the inquiry about children says ''Certainly, not." 
His travelling has been principally between New York 
and Texas. He "Visited Bill Jones at Temple, Texas, some 
years ago, and found him a bank president, and generally 
prominent." Conover adds that he is "Trying to hold his 
end up when he runs against Harvard and Yale men." 

"Attended the Re-union and enjoyed it very much. 
Expects to attend all future Re-unions." 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 




SAMUEL M. DAVIS 



Davis is practicing law in Santa Anna, California, with 
good success. He married Mabel Keith of Minneapolis, 
Minn., September 30, 1896, and has two children; Samuel 
Keith Davis, born December 26, 1897; Laura Maud 
Davis, born July 28, 1899. 

His writings include "Some of the Consequences of the 
Louisiana Purchase," read before the Cleveland, Ohio, 
Meeting of the American Historical Association; "Henepin, 
as Discoverer and Author," in the Minnesota Historical 
Society Collection, Vol. 9, page 223. "Dual Origin of 
Minnesota," Minnesota Hist. Soc. Coll. Vol. 9, page 519. 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

"The Inter-State Commerce Commission and the PubHc," 
The Outlook, March, 1900. "Minnesota Primary Election 
Law," The New York Independent, Nov. 1900. "The 
Scholar in Civic Life," Address deUvered at the Twenty- 
fifth Anniversary of the Founding of the State Normal 
School, at Indiana, Pa. 

Davis is a member of the American Historical Associa- 
tion, of the Minnesota Bar Association, of the Minnesota 
Historical Society, of the Geographical Society of Phila- 
delphia, corresponding member of the Missouri Historical 
Society; honorary member of the Historical Society of 
Western Pennsylvania. 

He belongs to the Princeton Alumni Association of the 
Northwest, and has influenced probably six or eight to 
go to Princeton. 

CLINTON SPENCER DAY 
Here is the breezy letter which blows in from Lake Erie, 
where Clin is still doing business with the Cleveland house 
of R. G. Dun & Co. 

"Your circular of March 17 was duly received, and will 
be unduly answered. I will not make cheque payable 
to J. McN. Thompson, neither will I make cheque payable 
to Edward Huntting Rudd, for the very good reason that 
I make all cheques payable to my butcher, my grocer and 
the tax collector. I might send you a very generous cheque 
for the Gym. Fund, and gain a reputation for liberality, 
if I were only in a position to squeeze the amount out of 
the lower stratum of humanity without their knowing 
that they were being squoze, in some such manner as that 
prince of hypocrites and fiends incarnate, J. D. Stonyfeller 



PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

makes his liberal donations to public charities. But un- 
fortunately I am not one of the squeezers, but a very in- 
significant and unimportant squeezee. By dint of great 
economy I manage to keep out of the hands of the sheriff, 
but if I made donations to one-tenth of the worthy applica- 
tions that come from Princeton alone, it would have to 
be at the expense of my still more worthy creditors. 

"All this preamble will sufficiently prepare you for the 
statement that I am not one of those to whom untiring 
effort has brought, honor, success, and large wealth. For 
my record during the past ten years, I can refer you to 
that pubhshed in 1893. Very few changes of interest, 
even to myself, have come in the last nine years. None at 
all of interest to my friends of '83. I have the same wife, 
the same number of children, just as much hair, just as 
many teeth, and am just as young as I used to be. Have 
had a good deal of quiet happiness, and no real sorrow or 
trouble. I have grown some mentally, but physically, 
morally and financially, I am not conscious of having 
either improved or deteriorated. If anything happens 
before you go to press, I will advise you. Prescott is en- 
gaged to be married to a Miss Oliver, of Buffalo." 

FRANKLIN DUANE 

Flip wears his years as lightly as any man in '83. Jovial 
and gay in the olden time, he is happy and genial still. 
Two things doubtless contribute very largely to his habitual 
good spirit: first, his high and responsible position as assist- 
ant engineer of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington 
Railroad, with headquarters at Wilmington, Delaware; 
and second, his happy family life. He was married on 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

November 26, 1901, to Miss Catherine Neilson Carpender, 
of New Brunswick, and on October 23, 1902, his first born, 
Howard Duane, gave his first cry for "papa." FHp avers 
that the youngster will graduate in the class of '23, just 
forty years after his dad. 




CHARLES DUNNING 



From his office in Arkansas City, Kansas, comes this 
homeopathic dose from our allopathic physician: — "Suc- 
cess moderate ; unmarried ; Republican ; Presbyterian ; 
have travelled in United States, Canada and Mexico." 

But Dr. Dunning has much more to say for himself 



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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

when you catch him on one of his annual vacation trips 
east. You then, if you question him sharply, will hear 
about a very substantial success, both professional and 
pecuniary. He regrets that he is still single, but is alto- 
gether likely to remain so now. He is the same kind- 
hearted, sincere, merry and altogether wholesome fellow 
we knew at Princeton, but greatly developed in every way. 
Life has taught him the best things and has made a sound, 
well-rounded and earnest man out of a whole-hearted boy. 

REV. GEORGE EDWARDS 

Edwards is a minister of the Presbyterian Church and 
resides at Great Falls, Mont., 1107 Fifth Avenue North. At 
present he occupies the position of Stated Clerk and His- 
torian of the Synod of Montana and for nearly two years 
has been S. S. Missionary for Great Falls Presbytery. 

His first wife, Mary A. Catlin, died at White Sulphur 
Springs, Mont., on June 2, 1890. There are no children 
from this marriage living. 

January 5, 1897, he was married to Mrs. Hosea L. Fisher 
at their home in Great Falls. He has three Fisher boys, 
Hosea, Harold and Carl, aged respectively, 18, 15 and 12 
years of age. They are all Montana boys and he says, "I 
should be glad to see them in Princeton, but they have not 
selected their classes." 

His principal titles have been Moderator and Stated Clerk 
of Presbytery of Great Falls and Synod of Montana. As 
Stated Clerk he has issued the last three numbers of the 
Minutes of the Synod of Montana, the last a special His- 
torical number. Last year at the direction of Synod he fur- 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

nished the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions a "His- 
torical Sketch of Presbyterianism in Montana." 

He votes the Repubhcan ticket and for 17 years has been 
a Presbyterian Home Missionary. 







REV. GEORGE EDWARDS 



Last year as S. S. Missionary he travelled 18,000 miles in 
Montana, 1,500 a month, using bicycle, stage coach, and 
saddle horse as well as the railroad. 

He writes: " Some of the fellows might not think that I 
was treating them just right if I did not add that my wife's 
first husband was in the sheep business and while I am 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

looking after the 'lost sheep' she continues to manage the 
Fisher Sheep Ranch with its three bands of 'bleating idiots' 
as Roosevelt termed them in one of his earlier publications. 
Of course, I am a High Tariff Republican. There is some- 
times a good deal of romance in a Home Missionary's life 
in the far West. 

"We shall be glad to see any of the boys of '83 at 1107 
Fifth Avenue North, Great Falls." 

DANIEL ACKLEY FELL 

In response to the questions sent out by you, I w^ill give 
the following answers to correspond with the list prepared 
by you: — 

Name: — Daniel Ackley Fell. Home, 325 S. River 
Street; Business, 55 Bennett Building, Wilkes Barre, 
Luzerne Co., Pa. Have been practicing law since 1885. 

"Success" depends largely upon what you mean by 
the word. I suppose I have done about as well as the rest 
of the men engaged in the profession, taking everything 
into consideration. 

Married to Frances Bertels, at Wilkes Barre, October 
10, 1888. 

Five children: Harold Bertels Fell, born August 18, 
1889; Daniel Ackley Fell, born March 27, 1898; Alexander 
Gray Fell 2nd, born January 18, 1900; John Gillingham 
Fell, born December 14, IQ02. Also one other son, born 
May 6, 1891, who died August 31, 1891. All were born 
in Wilkes Barre. My eldest boy, I expect, will be ready 
for Princeton in the fall of 1906; his present weight is 140 
lbs., height 5 feet 8 inches, shoe 7 3^, and hat 7. 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

I am a Republican in politics and a Presbyterian in 
religion; For discussion upon the subjects of Capital and 
Labor, our new possessions, etc., I can gladly refer you to 




DANIEL A. FELL 

any of the latest encyclopedias or works prepared by ex- 
perts in this line. 

I have written no books or papers. I have been 
District Attorney of Luzerne County for three years, and 
acting Postmaster at Wilkes Barre for one year. I am 
engaged in the manufacture of wrought iron grill work, 
etc., at the Eagle Iron Works, Wilkes Barre. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

I know very little about my classmates, as none of them 
live in the vicinity of Wilkes Barre, but would like to know 
more about them and to see them frequently. I never had 
a better time in my life than I had with my old classmates 
in June last. 

With kindest regards to you and the boys, and best 
wishes for the class of '83, I am, 

Very respectfully yours. 

Daniel A. Fell. 



WILLIAM PIERSON FIELD 

Field lives at 976 Broad Street, Newark, N. J., He 
married Miss Josephine Downing Smith January 12, 1887, 
and seven years later rejoiced in the advent of a son. He 
has written a few articles on engineering subjects. He 
writes: — In reference to the Class Records, I filled out 
answers to questions in Rudd's circular sometime ago, 
but I must admit my replies were hardly on the order of 
Macaulay's Essays, and I am afraid will prove very un- 
interesting to read. It has always been a difficult task 
for me to compose anything of a strictly literary order, 
especially so when such information is of a personal nature. 
What talents in this direction I originally possessed, were 
labored upon long ago and unsuccessfully by "Granny 
Hunt," but to no avail. If on looking up my replies to 
Rudd's circular, you find them not satisfactory, I will 
again endeavor to reply more fully to these questions, 
although the thought of another literary effort seems more 
awful to me than the solution of the hackneyed problem 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

"concerning the age of Ann," which I consider mere child's 
play compared with literary composition. 

Sincerely yours, 

William P. Field. 




REV. WILLIAM PARKER FINNEY 



"J'ai Finis" claims that as he makes history so slowly, 
the calls for letters for the successive Class Records come 
all too frequently for him. He wonders why the first ques- 
tion should insist on his proclaiming once again his "name 
in full," when he has already done so in every Record up to 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

date, unless," as he says, "there be a base suspicion that as 
the years have flown, some of the fellows have found it 
convenient to employ aliases." But as for himself, he as- 
sures us that no such necessity has confronted him, and that 
his name still remains the same, though it is becoming 
increasingly necessary to distinguish it from William Parker 
Finney, Jr., by the addition of "Sr." 

Present address remains the same, Moorestown, N. J., 
where he has served as pastor of the Presbyterian church 
for more than eleven prosperous and happy years. Dur- 
ing this period he has also "given much time and labor to the 
work of the church in the wider field of my Presbytery and 
Synod, in the former, as chairman of our Home Mission 
Committee, having largely under my care and direction 
no less than twenty mission churches, scattered throughout 
the pine belt of New Jersey, from Atlantic Highlands 
almost to Atlantic City." 

He has also been twice honored with a commissionership 
to the Presbyterian General Assembly, and is a member 
of its Permanent Committee on Systematic Beneficence. He 
is also a member of the Presbyterian Board of Education, 
with headquarters in the Witherspoon Building, Philadel- 
phia, and oh! ye shades of Pluto, Thersites, and Nebuchad- 
nezzar! is examiner for the Board in Latin, Greek and 
Hebrew, of the students in the Presbyterian Theological 
Seminaries throughout the country, who from time to time 
compete for their valuable prize scholarships. 

" The domestic chapter of my life may be outlined as fol- 
lows: I was married (i) at Bel Air, Maryland, on October 
5, 1887, to Pamela R. Richardson, who died at New Egypt, 
N. J., January 31, 1889, leaving me a son, William P., Jr., 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

born eleven days before. I was married (2) at Moores- 
town, N. J., on October 5, 1897, to Kate A. Richardson. 
My boy is the joy and pride of our home, and in June last, 
before he was fourteen and a half, he took four of the six 
Freshman entrance examinations for Princeton, and passed 
them with the utmost ease, and could readily pass the re- 
maining two in September. But on account of his youth, 
I expect to keep him out a year longer, so that he will doubt- 
less be a member of the class of 1908. It is a matter of 
family interest to us to recall that his great-grandfather, 
William Finney, graduated from Princeton in the year 1809, 
so that if all goes well, the four generations of us in direct 
line will have gotten through Princeton in one year under 
a round century. And at the rate at which this sprout of 
mine has started out, it looks as though he might soon cast 
forebears into a dense shade." 

" My travels in this country have carried me into almost 
every state in the union; and beyond the seas, I have touched 
the continents of Europe, Asia and Africa. In 1900, in a 
voyage around the Mediterranean, I greatly enjoyed a visit 
to Egypt, that ancient cradle of the race, and even more a 
horseback journey through the length of the Holy Land. 
At Beirut, Syria, I had the great pleasure of seeing Frank 
Hoskins, and something of the noble work he is doing to 
redeem that land, from which have sprung the best hopes 
and traditions of our Christian civilization. So far as I am 
aware, no son of '83 is doing a work so far-reaching, or so up- 
lifting, to so large a section of humanity — more or less, the 
whole Arabic-speaking world — than this same Frank Hos- 
kins of ours, and if, in his letter to the Record, he does not 
tell us something about it, it will be a sorry pity. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

"I hope I have been duly zealous in presenting the cause 
of Princeton as opportunity permitted, and especially to 
the sons of my parishioners; and by tutoring some, and 
otherwise assisting others, I have had the satisfaction of 
seeing several graduate, and in each case with high stand- 
ing. But if I may speak frankly, things have come to such 
a pass at Princeton during Commencement week, that 
however proud I may be to pilot these friends and prospec- 
tive patrons thither at any other time during the College 
year, I am exceedingly chary how I do it during Com- 
mencement week, or even go myself. For the wholesale 
drinking that goes on in most of the class tents, and the 
numerous ' drunks' that are to be seen about the streets 
and campus, and even sprawled out on the steps of Alex- 
ander Hall itself in the very midst of the Commencement 
crowds, is to those who do not understand these things 
a sight so abhorrent and inexcusable that it simply does 
not admit of any explanation. And if '83 will follow up, and 
emphasize, to President Woodrow Wilson, the unanimous 
protest which it made at the recent reunion against this 
thing, it will do a most praiseworthy act, and something 
which will really do more for Princeton than any other one 
thing I know." Rudd wishes to add that Finney has written 
some exceedingly creditable verses and hymns in recent 
years, and we want him to know that we are proud of, and 
grateful to him, as we are of every man who does things 

worth while. 

D. K. ESTE FISHER 

Este is a member of a prosperous law firm in Baltimore, 
but made the mistake of supposing that the class wanted a 
"brief" from him, instead of a long, newsy letter. How- 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

ever, he is a happy and a busy man; happy in his marriage 
to Miss Sallie Jones Milhgan McLane, and busy in dig- 
ging bait for all these little Fishers : David Kirkpatrick 
Este Fisher, Jr., born February 2, 1892; Louise Este 
Fisher, born February 27, 1896; Sophie McLane Fisher, 
born December 20, 1898; Louis McLane Fisher, born 
August 3, 1901. 

He positively declines to discuss the tariff, capital, labor, 
our new possessions, etc., until he is elected to Congress. 
His travels have extended to Cuba and Europe. 

HOWARD H. GARMANY 

Garmany gives as his present address the State Bank, 
Hartford, Conn., this change of base having some connection, 
no doubt, w^ith another item of information in his brief 
report, namely that on April 27, 1889, he M^as married to 
Miss Caroline Day Bissell, of Hartford, Conn. He then 
skips questions galore until he comes to the one about 
politics, under M^hich he tersely describes himself as "a 
Democrat, but no Bryanite." During the past eight years 
he has spent much time in travelling; has visited all parts 
of Europe, also North Africa, Asia Minor, as vs^ell as the 
United States; but in all his journeyings has not come upon 
any '83 man. 

PROF. GEORGE W. GILMORE, Ph.D. 

Gilmore's story runs as follov^^s : 

He is Professor of the Language and Literature of the 
Old Testament and the History of Religion in the Mead- 
ville Theological School and lives at 6c6 Chestnut St., 
Meadville, Pa. Says, " I manage to hold my chair dow^n. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

From 1893 to 1899 was fiist Instructor, then Professor, 
in Bangor Theological Seminary." 

Gilmore married Emily C. V. Lake, April 28, 1886, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., and has one boy, born in Seoul, Korea, 
November 18, 1887, named David Percy, after Morgan. 
He is preparing for Princeton. Maybe ready to enter Sep- 
tember, 1905, but may stay out a year to study music, as he 
has some talent as a pianist. 

Gilmore's tariff principles centre about a tariff for rev- 
enue, he says, " since the 'infant industries' seem to me no 
longer to need protection. I fear a great conflict between 
labor unionism and — not so much capital, which is able 
to take care of itself, but — the free labor not yet organized. 
The present situation seems to involve great peril." He 
has always been a mugwump, in the sense advocated by 
Dr. Duryea at Princeton in 1879 — "Always vote for a man 
without a party rather than for a party without a man." 
As to religious affiliation he adds, " My name is carried on 
the Congregational Year Book, though I am teaching in a 
Unitarian school." 

His writings include "Korea from Its Capital"; "Thejo- 
hannine Problem." He compiled for Bishop Hurst a book 
that goes under his name, title, "The Literature of The- 
ology." Has written a number of articles for theological 
reviews, is on the staff of the "American Journal of Theol- 
ogy "as a reviewer, and has a couple of articles in the 
press now which will appear before this is in type. He is 
a member of some societies devoted to research. 

His contribution to these pages concludes as follows : 
" Have seen most of Murdoch, who is making a tear and in 
all probability some dust in his two Troy positions. He is 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

the same honest, square fellow he always proved himself in 
college. 

"My visits to Princeton have been fewer than I desire. 
Consequently I have too little accurate knowledge to be able 
to talk on Princeton affairs. With all my heart I con- 
gratulate Princeton on the personality of her new Presi- 
dent, and on the fact that he is a layman and not a theol- 
ogian. It seems to me a happy event — the divorcement of 
the University from theological discussion." 

WALTER D. GREEN 

Dr. Walter D. Green's address is given in the Phila- 
delphia City Directory as looi Chestnut Street, residence 
"The Esmonds." Green was reported to be suffering 
from impaired health some years ago, but it is said he has 
now recovered his health and is engaged at this time in the 
active and successful prosecution of his profession. 

JAMES S. HARLAN 

OFFICE OF THE 
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF PORTO RICO, 
SAN JUAN. 

March i6, 1903. 
My Dear Bryant: 

I have just received your circular letter of February 
25, which I have read with interest. It was a pleasure to 
hear from you, even in print. I hope that all has gone well 
with you since I last saw you. 

It is a matter of great regret to be compelled finally to 
reach the conclusion that I shall not be able to be present 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

on the occasion of our twentieth annual re-union. The 
same ship that takes this letter north will take Mrs. Harlan 
and me with it. But within a few days after arriving 
in the United States we shall sail for the other side of the 
water. I shall first, however, present to the President 
my resignation as Attorney General of Porto Rico, and 
after three or four months in Spain, where I go to fix my 
knowledge of Spanish, so far as that may be done in that 
time, I shall return to my office in Chicago. 

When this government was first organized. President 
McKinley offered me the appointment as Attorney General. 
It came as an entire surprise, for I was not ambitious for 
public station. I felt, however, that I could not afford to 
leave my practice in Chicago and declined the appoint- 
ment. A year later, he summoned me to Washington and 
there made such a point of it that I felt it my duty to accept, 
although I did so reluctantly and told him so. I made it 
a condition that I would not stay in Porto Rico longer than 
one year. I have now been here a few days over two years, 
and I think I am entitled to surrender my post. It has 
been a period of much labor but of absorbing interest. 
No experience could have been more valuable to me pro- 
fessionally or otherwise than my work here. 

Will you, in your own way, convey to my classmates a 
proper expression of my great regret at not being able to 
be with them in June. Twenty years is a long portion of 
one life, and through it all I do not find that my affection 
and personal regard for my classmates has lost any of its 
strength. And I cannot tell you adequately what a keen 
delight it would be to me to join with them in this re-union. 
I should certainly not permit a mere trip of pleasure to 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

keep me away. But my purpose in going is a much more 
serious one. I feel the necessity of returning to my prac- 
tice at the earhest moment, and I also feel that it would be 
a mistake not to seize this opportunity to acquire a new 




JAMES S. HARLAN 

language, which, with my experience here, I hope to do 
within a reasonable time by a stay of four or five months 
in Spain. 

Will you be kind enough to address further communica- 
tions to me at 1401 Euclid Place, Washington. I shall 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

in fact be there for ten days or more after arriving in the 
north. 

Give my love to every member of the class. 

Sincerely yours, 

James S. Harlan. 

Note. — Harlan's office corresponded to that of Attor- 
ney-General of one of the States of the Union, but was 
somewhat different in the fact that new lines of develop- 
ment had to be marked out and precedents established con- 
sistently with American and Spanish law in the island. 
It devolved upon him to render opinions for all the officers 
of Porto Rico and to supervise all litigation for and against 
the territory, as well as criminal prosecutions. His opinions 
were published March 17, 1903, by direction of the Legis- 
lative Assembly of Porto Rico, as the first volume of 
Opinions of the Attorney General of Porto Rico. They 
cover almost every branch of the law, including Constitu- 
tional Law, Municipal Law, Naturalization, Marriage 
and Divorce, Commercial Regulations, Freedom of the 
Press, Taxation, Public Lands and Buildings, Public 
Schools, Police Power, Corporations, etc. Later: Harlan 
has resumed his law practice in Chicago. 

OLIVER HARRIMAN, JR. 

Harriman's business address is 120 Broadway, New 
York City. His home at White Plains, New York and his 
City house, 70 Park Avenue. 

He married Miss Grace Carley, January 27, 1891, at 
St. Thomas's Church, New York City, and has one boy, 
ten years old, named Oliver Carley Harriman. He hopes he 
will enter Princeton in the Class of 1914. 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

He writes: "Am a Republican, and have always voted 
that ticket. 

"Have travelled a good deal over the United States; 
also in Greece, North Africa, Italy, Spain, Russia, Norway, 




OLIVER 



Sweden, England, etc. Have not seen as much of '83 
as I would have liked. 

"Think that I have influenced some for Princeton. 
Am a member of the Princeton Club. Will not be able 
to attend the re-union June 6, as I am going abroad, and 
hope to take a trip to the North Cape, and also Russia. 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

I regret extremely not being able to whoop it up for '83 
on above date." 




J. TRIPLETT HAXALL 

Jerry reports from Baltimore, where he is now in busi- 
ness with the Baltimore Ship Building arid Dry Dock 
Company, and is meeting with "fair success." He thinks 
he is in too close relation with labor to talk more about it 
than necessary. In politics he is a Democrat, verging 
towards Independent. A census taken at his fireside reveals 
him a very close second to his fellow townsman, Este 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Fisher. Naturally, Triplett's children are three: Rose 
Stanley Gordon Haxall, born January 1892; Anne Pleas- 
ants Haxall, born July, 1893 ; John Triplett Haxall, Jr., 
born May, 1898. Of the latter, his idol, he says: "I think 
Princeton 1915 should about catch him." Jerry's travels 
have carried him as far as Canada and Cuba. 

CHARLES HEWITT 

I am in receipt of your circular of May 11, and hasten 
to reply. 

My home is at 428 West Stafford Street, Germantown, 
Philadelphia, and my business address 9th and Dauphin 
Streets, Philadelphia. 

I am nov^, and have been for the last nine years, Electrical 
Engineer for The Rapid Transit Company, and its pre- 
decessor. Success is such a comparative term that I 
hardly knov^ how^ to answer. If being able to hold my 
end up in the position in which I find myself is success, 
then I have attained some success; but if success is measured 
by one's riches, then my success is very moderate. 

"Married — yes, to Helen Scarborough, at Trenton, 
September 20, 1888. 

"Children — none, more's the pity. 

"The tariff question does not specially interest me; 
nor does that of our new possessions, except that I should 
regret to see our country acquire any more foreign territory 
other than such naval stations as may be necessary. I 
am not an anti-imperialist, and am thoroughly in accord 
with the country's policy to date. But I do believe that a 
further acquisition of foreign territory would not be to 

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our country's advantage. The question of capital and 
labor appeals to me more than the others you have men- 
tioned, and is one which I follow with a good deal of in- 
terest. I believe there is hardly any question that will 




CHARLES HEWITT 



affect our country's future welfare so vitally as this one. 
Where are the arbitrary and dictatorial demands of labor 
unions to stop ? Only when the industries which support 
labor can bear the burden no longer, thus bringing on a 
period of depression, the like of which this country has 
never known. Employers are forming unions to fight the 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

employees' unions. Arbitration of labor questions is a 
myth, a dream which can never come true. Never till 
they become incorporated can labor unions be dealt w^ith 
with any hope of justice. The decisions of the Anthracite 
Commission were unjust and unsatisfactory to employer 
and employee, while the general public pays the entire 
cost. I could say much more on this subject, but will stop 
with the hope that a new Moses will appear, and lead us 
out of the difficulties which I anticipate. 

"I am a Republican, and a member of the Protestant 
Episcopal Church. 

"Have written no books or papers of late. Have re- 
cently joined the Free Masons. 

"My travels have not been such as to interest anyone." 

JOHN ASPINWALL HODGE 

The statistical information asked for by our learned 
secretary was all furnished him five years ago. Since then 
neither marriages, births or deaths have come to my im- 
mediate household, but my father has passed away since 
our last record. It is an easy matter to extend my sym- 
pathy to all my classmates who have been similarly afflicted. 

I have written no books and no articles of sufficient in- 
terest to bear mention. One brief or argument in a recent 
litigation I circulated among some of my professional 
brethren, and some of my classmates have received copies 
of it. It deals with an interesting subject and with some 
phases of it that were not exploited by the press. 

My political faith has remained what it was when we 
graduated, except that it has grown in intensity, for the 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

same causes which made me a Democrat have constrained 
me to become a more inveterate one. Chief among these 
is the bUndness of the party of my fathers to the great un- 
derlying movements among the common people — their 




JOHN ASPINWALL HODGE 

meaning, momentum and immanence. I am no pessimist, 
though most of you, I suppose, would call me an alarmist. 
The velocity of recent and present events in the com- 
mercial and industrial world is confusing, and we lawyers 
have difficulty in keeping up with the giant strides of the 
Captains of Industry. Some of us who have had the 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

temerity to suggest a slightly lower pace have learned of 
the wonderful resources of the regal trusts who rule our 
so-called Democracy. When those resources are focussed 
upon a given result, even when that result is to be deter- 
mined in the courts of the state of our Alma Mater, startling 
phenomena appear. The facts I learned as counsel and 
plaintiff in the suit now pending against the United States 
Steel Corporation, are almost worth the experience of 
defeat which we suffered in the second round in that suit, 
following our victory in the preliminary bout. The facts 
were disconcerting and seemingly revolutionary. If I 
wrote a book and entitled it "My Experience as a Plaintiff," 
I fear it might be circulated by the socialists, if not the 
anarchists, as containing facts calling for their radical 
remedies. 

The imperial authority growing out of the supremacy of 
the dollar and exercised by a few men responsible to no 
one but to those in their own narrow circle, is great, but 
might not be so alarming if it were not increasing so rapidly. 
At will, its czar-like power influences (if it does not alto- 
gether control) the executive of almost every commercial 
state, as well as nearly all the executive departments of 
the Federal government; it is the dominating factor in 
and behind legislative action, and we lawyers whisper 
(hesitating to speak it Igudly) of its influence in some of 
the courts. Its one-man power is felt in every business 
-which either furnishes the necessities of life, or, for some 
other reason, is large enough for the palate of an industrial 
giant trust: and finally, and what is worst of all (as we know, 
without quoting Daniel Webster) the iron hand of our royal 
masters in the great world of business is felt hard-clasped 

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upon the wrists of the writers for the press, from the penny- 
a-Hner to the proprietor and editor in chief. How rigid 
and firm that clasp is, let the writers of the press tell you, 
as they have told me. As you think ahead, remembering 
that tendencies are more potent than conditions, and as you 
endeavor to estimate the result of any growth of that sort 
of control, you may know how it feels to be an alarmist, — 
a title of honor, I take it, if there is anything to be alarmed 
about, and a title of derision in the mouths of those who 
are inclined to believe that we Americans have solved all 
problems in the past and so present problems, however 
great, will solve themselves. As these optimists can't 
suggest a solution, they fall back upon the general ability 
of the nation to "find a way out." Perhaps they are right — 
we all hope they are. 

My remedy would be a continued course of medicine in 
the industrial, commercial and political world. Without 
extending this lecture by writing out the prescription it 
would seem that the first health-giving dose for the cure 
of our political distempers, should be the election of a 
democratic president, for if we put off doing that, we may 
have to suffer a socialistic one, four years hence. Now is 
the time for the great body of the people whom Lincoln 
believed in, to make itself heard, even if, to do so, many of 
them may have to break political ties of long standing. 
Yours in '83, 

J. AspiNWALL Hodge. 

Hodge, J. Aspinwall, lawyer, 30 Broad Street, New York 
City. Married, Miss Genevieve Baldwin Karr, at Hart- 
ford, Conn., May 29, 1888. Children: Charlotte Morse 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Hodge, May 5, 1889; Louisa Karr Hodge, July 6, 1890; 
Katharine Aspinwall Hodge, January 26, 1896. 




REV. FRANKLIN EVANS HOSKINS, D.D. 

Home, Beirut, Syria. Occupation, Missionary of the 
Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in 
the United States of America; engaged in producing Re- 
ligious literature, editor of the Press, weekly newspaper, 
etc. Plenty of hard work done and much more to do on 
the Arabic Bible and its many editions. 

Married Harriette MoUison Eddy, Beirut, Syria. Au- 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

gust 22, 1888; Children: Jeannette Ives, born Suk ul- 
Gharb, September 28, 1889; Horace Eddy, born Suk ul- 
Gharb, June 22, 1891, died Suk ul-Gharb, August 3, 1891; 
Clara Bradley, born Zahleh, November i, 1892; Harold 
Boies, born Beirut, May 19, 1895; Ethel Evans, born 
Beirut, April 15, 1899, died Zahleh, September 7, 1899. 
Harold w^ill enter Princeton, D. V., about 1912. 

"Our Nev\^ Possessions" would be my choice from among 
the public issues. When the United States can build a wall 
around her possessions, enclosing South America, the 
Atlantic and the Pacific oceans within her territory, she can 
refuse to bear her portion of the "white man's burden" 
in reclaiming the rest of the human race morally, politically 
and religiously, and in ruling the peoples of the earth. 
I am an independent in politics, but would vote for Roose- 
velt and what he represents at this stage of our national 
history. I believe that our country is rushing into some 
of the greatest dangers and problems of human history 
which are to centre about the relations of capital and 
labor and the right and wrong uses of great wealth. 

I am a Presbyterian by natural affinities and find no good 
reason to change. For three years I have been engaged 
in preparing and perfecting a Form of Government for the 
Evangelical Churches of Syria along Presbyterian lines, 
but broad enough to embrace all Evangelical Christians. 

Have written pamphlets and articles innumerable for 
out religious periodicals, and not a few for the educational 
and political papers of the United States and England, 
including -The Times, London; most of this latter class of 
articles appeared unsigned for reasons that need not be 
enumerated here. 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Stated Clerk of the Syria Mission, Editor of the Press, 
weekly newspaper, etc. President of the Beirut Literary 
Society; Associate Member of the Victoria Institute of 
Great Britain. Have just completed my share of a book in 
collaboration with Prof. William Libbey on our trip to 
Petra, which ought to appear this fall. Have received the 
degree of D.D., from New York University, June, 1903. 
As complete a surprise as if it had come from the moon! 

I have crossed the ocean seven times. Have covered 
Syria and the Holy Land from Aintab in Central Turkey 
to Petra in Arabia. During our furlough in 1896-97, I 
journeyed in all about 32,000 miles, and saw more of the 
'83 men that I can ever hope to see again. I visited the 
homes of Brodhead, Day, Finney, Howell, Parmly, Rudd, 
and Rutan. Finney is the only '83 man who ever visited 
me in this land, and he found me on my back in the hos- 
pital. THE TRIP of my life was the last one made in 
February and March of last year in company of and through 
the generosity of Prof. William Libbey, when we went on a 
42-days journey East of the Jordan, and south into Arabia, 
as far as the ancient city of Petra. We had a most success- 
ful journey and will let '83 have the whole story in the book 
which ought to be out in time for all '83 men to make use 
of as a Christmas present to their wives! 

I am always trying to do my best for Princeton. Have 
helped several students in that direction. In March of last 
year (1902), we formed an Alumni Association of Syria, and 
"whooped it up for" Prof. Libbey, and at a later date for 
Prof. Orris. We propose to meet once or twice yearly, 
and will welcome every Princeton man that may come 
out way. I have made several wills, but can leave Prince- 

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PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

ton only the memory of my loyal and loving service, and a 
constantly increasing debt of affection and gratitude. 

I am in full sympathy with Princeton's conservative 
position on the matter of mainly required studies in the 
Freshman and Sophomore years, and electives in the Junior 
and Senior years. I have lately helped in a discussion of 
the problem as to what the degree of A.B. ought to stand 
for in the Colleges of the Turkish Empire. 

I wish to make grateful acknowledgment to all my class- 
mates for the special interest they have taken in my work, 
through the efforts of Parmly and to assure them that '83's 
memory will be kept green in connection with "The Pre- 
serve" at Ras Baalbec where good work will be done for 
many years to come. I have a hope that they will now take 
a new interest in the work of our Reading Rooms and 
ultimately a Y.M.C.A. building in the city of Beirut. 
No '83 man must dare to come within a hundred miles of 
this port without giving me a chance to show him some part 
of this interesting land. Our latch-string will always be 
out for any and every '83 man and we do trust that we may 
see more of them within the next twenty years than we have 
seen during the twenty years that are past. And '83 men 
must hang out their latch-strings again for us — father, 
mother, and children three — in 1905 or '06 if all goes well 
and we are spared to see that loved native land again. Next 
year comes the first big break in our circle, when our eldest, 
Jeanette, goes over the sea for the balance of her school 
training. It will be hard to let her go, but for her welfare 
we can do that and more. 

Very cordially and fraternally yours, 
F. E. HosKiNS. 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Note (by John E. Parmley): — In the year 1893, several 
men of our class, recognizing not only the very strong work 
Frank Hoskins had done in Syria, but also the fact that he 
was, at that time, the only one of the Class who was altogether 
engaged in Missionary work in a foreign land, thought it 
appropriate, as a Class, to do something which would not 
only help along the excellent work he was doing, but also 
help the Class in several ways by giving her members an 
opportunity of doing something altruistic. With such ideas 
in mind, a circular letter with an appeal, signed by quite a 
number of the members was sent to every member of the 
Class, resulting in $1^0 being raised in 1894 for Hoskins to 
use in his work in Syria in any way he saw fit. 

Hoskins soon conceived the idea of putting the money 
into such form as would be visible, tangible and lasting, 
so he began negotiations with the Turkish Government, 
under whose rule he lives, for a certain piece of property 
to be used as a Mission Out-station. So the money that was 
thus sent him year by year was used for the purchase and 
improvement of this property, consisting of a house and 
stable, this Station bearing the name of " '83's Preserve." 
$459 have been spent on it. It is used by the missionaries 
of that part of the country, not only as a stopping place in 
their itinerations, but also as a preaching station, the preach- 
ing at times being done by them, and at times being done 
by their converts. It is also used as a school-house, in 
which one of their converts with his family lives and 
teaches on the Sabbath and week-days. It is also used by 
Miss Mary Eddy, a medical missionary, as a medical 
station. Sometimes she has stayed there for weeks, treat- 
ing several hundred people a day, at times the people 

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coming to her at the Station, and sometimes she going from 
the Station to them. She uses these opportunities also to give 
the people the gospel. Miss Eddy is a daughter of the noted 
missionary, the late Dr. Eddy, of Syria, and a sister-in- 
law of Hoskins. The amount of good which, in so many 
ways, has been accomplished by this "Preserve," can never 
be tabulated. Now that this "Preserve" is on a solid 
foundation, and that Hoskins's advancement in the "Syrian 
Mission" gives him a wider field for usefulness, he suggests 
that the Class help him in Y. M. C. A. work in Beirut. 
At present, this Y. M. C. A. work there is on a very limited 
scale, but, it is hoped, will soon assume large proportions, 
such proportions as will warrant the building of a structure 
costing about forty thousand dollars. Dr. H. H. Jessup, 
who is now in this country on furlough, is charged with 
collecting funds for this work. Parmly has, from the be- 
ginning, acted as Secretary and Treasurer of the fund for 
the "Preserve," and he is acting in the same capacities in 
regard to the fund for this Y. M. C. A. work, and, inasmuch 
as this work is so great and important and undenomina- 
tional, it is hoped that gifts from the members of the Class 
and their friends whom they can induce to help, will con- 
tinue to pour in, even after April i, 1904, the date set for 
sending off the gift of the Class for this work. Already 
over ^100 have been contributed. The contributions so 
far are as follows: — 

$150 in 1894; ^75 in 1895; ^60 in 1896; $jo in 1898; 
;^I04 in 1899, for " '83's Preserve." 

^iio in 1904 for Y. M. C. A. work. 

John E. Parmley. 



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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 
GEORGE GOES HOWELL 

Haven't written a book, nary a paper, so titles are lack- 
ing. Haven't travelled except on business. Haven't done 
anything for Princeton. Don't believe you are longing 
for any discussion by me on University questions or present 
public issues. Glad I am able to answer your first question. 
Sincerely, 

George C. Howell. 

Howell's home is at 286 Roseville Avenue, Newark, N. 
J. He is in the wine importing business at 216 Greenwich 
Street, New York, and has had some success. 

He married Mary Alice Streit, of Newark, September 
28, 1886, and has had four children : Richard Streit Howell, 
born August i, 1887, Long Branch; died March 14, 1890; 
George Samuel Howell, born August 25, 1889, Newark; 
Katharyn Howell, born September 10, 1891; Martha 
Streit Howell, born September 2, 1897; hope Princeton 
IQ12. 



GEORGE B. JENNISON 

My dear Osborn : In reply to yours concerning class rec- 
ord, I have always believed that when you have nothing to 
say, the best way is to say it, and be done with it; and this 
was my fix, for I had not set the river on fire — not even been 
elected alderman. Just enjoying life and good health. 
Kindly ask Rudd to deal mildly with me; "set down naught 
in malice," and I will be content. 

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WILLIAM GOODRICH JONES 



To my friends and classmates of 20 years ago: 

After reading over a set of questions by the Rev. Edward 
Huntting Rudd, recently sent me, I w^as taken with a 
strange ennui, and imagined myself in the witness box — 
In re. State of Texas vs. Billy Jones. 

My defence must be something like the darkey's. The 
Judge asked him if he was the defendant in the case, and 
he answered, " 'Fendent in de case.? No, Judge. I'se 
aint de 'fendant in decase. That lawyer yonder what I hired 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

am de 'fendant. Fse only de nigger what stole de mule." 
I doubt if anyone is really interested in my shady past, 
a "chose-juggee," my luminous present or my nebulous 
future. 

I have an uneventful past. I once tried to make a 
Washington Birthday Senior oration in the old chapel at 
Princeton. The result was that I had to fly to Texas, 
for the song says "The Faculty won't be there." I thus 
escaped their wrath and the dust Ed. Peace and the 
boys raised in the old chapel. Here have I been ever since, 
and here I have erected my household gods and Penates. 
I have had several narrow escapes in Texas during the last 
twenty years. One was from making a fortune in Beau- 
mont, and the other was from making a fortune in Galveston 
real estate. I blew into Beaumont shortly after the first 
well began to gush. I was off'ered land at $i,ooo an acre, 
which I rejected with scorn. Some time afterwards when 
I returned, I found that this same land had gone up to 
;^io,ooo an acre. Then I tore my hair in vain and cried 
out that all the suckers were not dead, and shaking the oil 
from my auburn whiskers, I left the town. 

Several months afterwards, I returned to this great 
gambling hell, only to find that my same land had gone 
to $50,000 an acre. I hired a cheap negro to kick me out 
of town and have never returned. 

As for the narrow escape at Galveston, I still own a 
large tract of land adjoining the city, and was just beginning 
to sell it out at fancy prices, when the tornado and tidal 
wave brought destruction and death to the city. The city 
is now rebuilding on a more secure basis than ever, and it 
may be some day I will get a dividend. 

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While I haven't yet made a fortune in Texas, I am a 
great sportsman and love to hunt, my chief game being 
wolves, v\^hich I try to keep from the door. As for shooting 
I think I have the three best bird dogs in the State, and 
when quail shooting is in, I am out, neglecting my family, 
business, religion and lodge, for the exciting chase. Wing 
shooting is the most superb shooting in the world, vet 
strange to say, some prefer "crap shooting." 

Married ? Yes, — muchly — to a bigger, better, sounder 
and prettier biped than myself, which of course means 
much, and conveys a vivid picture of my wife's charms to 
all the boys that knew me. 

Happy .? Yea, Verumque. Smiles are my daily portion. 

Offspring ? Three chips, a boy of ten, and two girls, 
all lovely, lovely children, the most remarkable, beautiful 
and intelligent children in, well, in my family. 

Bald? Nit. 

Gray Hairs ? Yea, a few, but, as the prophet saith, 
"They are numbered." 

Fat and waddle .? Nay, still like Brother Cassius, 
refined and elegant features, crushed strawberry siders, 
and frequently I absent-mindedly scratch my stomach when 
flea-bitten on the back, as there is entente cordiale between 
these two surfaces. Those '83 men whom I have met show 
most beautiful convex surfaces between their chins and toes, 
and still they leap and gambol at the magic word, which is 

"Although I'm on crutches and clumsy and fat, 

I leap like the Ibex, and glide like the cat. 

And skim like the Petrel, and run like the deer. 

My heart full of sunshine, when someone shouts BEER." 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Fame and reputation ? Yes, I have achieved it. The 
name of Jones is known all over the United States. Indeed 
so amazing has become my reputation, that I have been 
forced to withdraw^ from the common herd, and now^ pre- 
fix W. Goodrich to my name. 

In lesser matters, I have served as Secretary of the Texas 
Bankers' Association for three years, and received from 
the Association a beautiful silver service. I have been 
President of the First National Bank of McGregor for 
fourteen years, and vs^as President of the Temple National 
Bank for eleven years. I sold out my stock in the Temple 
National Bank, and have ever since then been living on 
the interest of my debts. 

I am President of the Temple Park Association, which 
means an organization composed of fifty business men who 
own a Lake and Park west of town for fishing and hunting 
purposes, as also a pleasure resort. 

In Texas I am called the Father of Arbor Day, which 
means that for twenty years I have been talking and writing 
tree planting and was instrumental in having the State 
adopt an Arbor Day. I have the honor of being a Mason, 
a Knight Templar, and a Scottish Rite 32d degree Mason. 
I am also a member of the Texas Academy of Science, of 
which our own George Bruce Halstead was the organizer 
some twenty years ago. I am a member, and was for 
several years a Vice President of the American Forestry 
Association. 

I spend my summers at Chautauqua, N. Y., where I 
have been honored by being made a Vice President of the 
Elegant Men's Club on the shores of the Lake, and in the 
assembly grounds. 

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The Goodrich Jones medals have been given for fifteen 
years in Temple at the High School commencement exer- 
cises, one to the best boy orator, and one to the best girl 
orator. I am President and actively engaged in selling 
pianos, and musical instruments and stationery in The 
Temple Book Concern. For fourteen years I have been 
acting as a volunteer observer for the Weather Bureau, 
and have accurate records for these years. The best 
work I have done in Temple, has been the influencing 
people to plant trees, and I w^ish some of the boys could see 
our lovely little city. 

I have the honor of being an honest man, and have never 
been honored with nor sought political office. 

I have never yet served on a jury, and never will, if I 
can help it, which I say with shame, tears and rejoicing. 

Stag Party. I organized in Temple some twelve years 
ago an annual banquet among the business men on Thanks- 
giving night. Same has become a gathering now known 
all over the State as a unique affair, and some one hundred 
and fifty gentlemen annually take part in the festive pro- 
ceedings and speech making. 

After Dinner Speaker. I have quite a reputation as an 
after dinner speaker. When dinner is late, I am after it 
with an eloquence known only to the cook. 

I am still paying one hundred cents on the dollar, not- 
withstanding the boll weevil which is destroying our cotton. 
I have not yet found, as did Dick Swiveler, that certain 
streets are closed to me. 

Travelled .? Yes, a few. From Nova Scotia, through 
Canada, through the United States, through Mexico, and 
through California on the west. In Salt Lake City I found 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

many sweet girls, who seemed just like the ordinary girls 
that I am acquainted with. They, hearing that I was from 
Princeton, all asked tenderly after Sinclair Royle and 
Edwin Thomas Jefferson Royle. I never knew those dear 
boys had such a past. 

The Princeton Alumni Association of Texas, I have the 
honor of having organized some two years ago, and the 
meetings are now regularly held in San Antonio. 




GOODRICH JONES 



GEORGE N. KARNER 

You have my answers of when married, to whom, etc., 
we have two boys and two girls. Lenox Stanley Karner, 
born November 28, 1889, Manchester, N. H.; Clara Louisa 
Karner, born February 7, 1892, Albany, N. Y.; George 
Newell Karner, Jr., born October i, 1893, Albany N. Y.; 
Esther C. Karner, born September 7, 1895, Albany N. Y. 
The boys will enter Princeton — are yet preparing — perhaps 
in 1907 or 1908 — and later. 

I am still a Republican and a Presbyterian. I preach 

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occasionally and attend the First Presbyterian Church, 
Plainfield, N. J. 

Nothing published except my sermons. I am now asso- 
ciated with my father-in-law in the grain business. 

I have just returned from a trip to Honduras, Central 
America. Stopped in New Orleans. Met C. P. Richard- 
son and Joe Seguin there and with other Princeton men 
had a delightful time and visit. Joe Seguin is in the Custom 
House, New Orleans, and Richardson is associated with 
his sister in the cotton business. 

Have used my influence for Princeton always. Belong 
to the Alumni Club of Albany. 

I am, yours truly, 

George M. Karner. 

JOHN LAWRENCE KELLER 

John's home is No. 62 Summit Avenue, Jersey City. 
His occupation counsellor-at-law, and his oflftce No. 15 
Exchange Place, Jersey City. 

He is unmarried, and independent mostly in his political 
and religious affiliations. Has travelled in Europe and 
(partially) West and South United States. He belongs to 
the Princeton Club of New York, and expects to attend the 
reunion. 

REV. EVAN MOHR LANDIS 

In answer to the questions propounded in your letter 
would say: my name is as ever, Evan Mohr Landis. My 
home for the past five years has been Sallisaw, Indian 
Territory. As pastor of the Presbyterian Church, I have, 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 




JOHN LAURENCE KELLER 



under the conditions existing here, met with considerable 
success. 

Married twice. Name of my first wife was Emily D. 
Hamer. Married a second time on December 2, 1896, 
to Miss Mabel S. Crouty, at Tabor, la. No children living. 

Politics is not supposed to be a clergyman's forte; and 
the topics you suggest are not of special interest in a Ter- 
ritory where people have no vote. With us in the Indian 
Territory, the subjects of absorbing interest are local self- 
government, single or double statehood, or a territorial 
form of government. My political affiliation is Repub- 

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lican, voting Democratic ticket in municipal elections. 
Would you call such a person a "mugwump" ? 

I allow others to do my writing of books. Others enjoy 
the work and glory. I am satisfied to enter into other 
men's labors and read as many of their books as I enjoy 
and find to my profit. For one year, 1886-87, ^ ^^^ P"^"^" 
fessor of Hebrew and History at Ursinus College, Pa.; 
Commissioner to General Assembly. 

I have travelled from the jumping-off place in North 
eastern New Brunswick, Canada, to Texas on the south, 
and Rocky Mountains on the west. Visited only a few 
of my classmates, as Brodhead, Russell, etc. 

Influenced one, I think, to go to Princeton. Any will 
I might make in behalf of Princeton could only include 
"good will." Princetonians lost in the Indian Territory 
do not often find it easy to find their way out to Re-unions 
at the howl of the Tiger. Hence I cannot be present. 

Hoping the examination, though not written in Dickin- 
son Hall, will pass (I do not have any ambition to make 
100), I am 

Your classmate, 

E. M. Landis. 

PROF. HENRY M. LANDIS 

Received your favor inquiring about my brother, Rev. 
Henry M. Landis. I am sorry you failed to hear from 
him. His address is the same as when you corresponded 
with him before — Meiji, Gakwin, Shirokane, Tokyo, Japan. 

He has five children living (the oldest having died), three 
girls and two boys. 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

I do not know in what department or departments he 
is teaching at present. The fact is, he has been teaching 
in almost every department. 

Aside from his teaching, he has planned and superin- 




EVAN M. LANDIS 

tended the construction of a number of educational build- 
ings for our own and other denominations, in Tokyo, and 
other cities of Japan. A year or two ago, he made a 
couple of trips to the northern island to oversee the con- 
struction of such a building. 

He is a clerk of the Japanese Church of Christ, and as 

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such has the preparation of reports of the work. He was 
also clerk of the Japanese Missionary Conference conven- 
ing two or three years ago, and has the preparation of re- 
ports, etc., in two volumes for press. I think he has had 
a number of articles published — church and other papers, 
but I am unable to catalogue them. 

His furlough will be due in 1905, but I do not know 
whether he and his family expect to come to the United 
States directly. 

Later: — Henry is in this country. Letters will reach him 
care his other brother, Harrison Landis, Oak Lane, Phila- 
delphia. 

LUCIUS ALLEN LEWIS 

My dear Billy: — 

I have yours of the 21st inst., and am ,glad to hear that 
I was missed at the Re-union which I regret I was not 
able to attend. I thought the committee had my present 
address, etc., and what I was doing, hence I did not stop 
to answer Rudd's long series of questions. However, I 
am glad to answer your letter. I have struck more or less 
to business as far as my powers would permit. At this 
time I am President of Allen & Lewis, and represent 
somewhat our family interests in other lines, although 
most of my time is put in the details of the business. If 
Rudd wants something high-sounding add that I am First 
Vice President of the Security Savings & Trust Co., a 
member of the Water Committee of the City of Portland, 
Director in the Portland Gas Co., Director in the Oregon 
Furniture Co., President of the Columbia Mines Co., etc. 
You can value these titles, however, as you may see fit. 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

I have not been east for some time, not since I was 
married five years ago. The last trip I took v^as a year 
ago, when I was away three months with my wife in China 
and Japan. I have nothing to complain of in hfe but my 
own shortcomings. It has been so long since I have been 
east, that I hope the next trip I take will be in that direc- 
tion, and I shall surely call on you. The tide of travel is 
westward, however, and I hope that you will come out 
here and I will show you a good country to live in. 

With best wishes, I am, 

Yours very truly, 

L. A. Lewis. 

FREDERICK A. LIBBEY 

44 WALL STREET, NEW YORK 

In general — My name and place of birth have not 
changed. I am interested in real estate and the storage 
of iron. Married, have two children; live quietly and 
happily, and try to keep peace with the rest of mankind. 
Come and see me sometime, and I will tell you whatever 
else you want to know. 

Yours sincerely, 

Frederick A. Libbey. 

PROF. BENJAMIN WIESTLING MITCHELL 

Mitchell's home is in Philadelphia, at 4326 Pine Street. 
He is Head of the Department of Ancient and Modern 
Languages, Central High School, in Philadelphia, and 
reports "Success" ( .?) as far as can be hoped for in the 

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BENJAMIN WIESTLING MITCHELL 



teaching profession, if you mean from a financial stand- 
point. If your meaning is less material, I can only leave 
my professional success to be estimated as any one may 
choose. 

Married Miss Annie Lee Edwards, of Cumberland, 
Maryland, December 31, 1884, and has no children. 

He says "I'm a protectionist, an 'imperialist,' and would 
be a capitalist if I could." Am a Republican and a Pres- 
byterian. (Why does the Reverend Secretary give prefer- 
ence to politics ?) 

Writings: "The Pervigilium Veneris, Commentary and 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Translation," 1894; "The Essentials of Latin," 1889. 
Associate Editor Field and Stream. Have filled no pub- 
lic office. 

Societies: American Historical Association, Historical 
Society of Pennsylvania, National Educational Association, 
Classical Club of Philadelphia, Schoolmen's Club of Phil- 
adelphia (President); University Club of Philadelphia, 
Philadelphia Yacht Club, Young Republican Club of Phil- 
adelphia, Educational Club. 

Mitchell has not travelled outside the United States, has 
been thrown very little w^ith classmates, and can give no in- 
formation of any probable value to the Record. 

He reports: "Doing professionally all in my pov^er for 
Princeton. Have probably influenced a considerable num- 
ber — say 150. Will attend Re-union." 

Has nothing to say about University questions which 
would prove of interest or value. Should like, however, 
to see such a revision of F. B. rules that Princeton would 
necessarily win every game. . 

RUSSELL WELLMAN MOORE 

Russell is the chemist in charge of the Laboratory of 
the U. S. Appraiser at 641 Washington Street, New York 
City. His home address is 47 Linden Place, Orange, N. J. 
He is unmarried. He writes as follows: 

"I know more about the tariff than any other national 
subject, having been engaged in applying its provisions 
to imports during the last fifteen years. The Laboratory 
of the Appraiser at New York employs 22 men and handles 
as many as 50,000 samples of sugar and 13,000 other samples 

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of all kinds a year, and is used by almost every port of im- 
portance in the United States in ascertaining duty. Civil 
Service has also come under my observation from being a 
member of the local board of examiners for the past tv^elve 
years. 




RUSSELL W. MOORE 



"Have v^ritten no book, but have contributed several 
papers on chemical subjects since last record, mainly to 
the Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry, of London, 
as follow^s: November 30, 1899, The Analysis of Lupuline, 
Analysis of Assafoetida. March 31, igoo, Free Fatty 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Acid in Olive Oil. April 30, 1900, Statistics of the Labor- 
atory of the Appraiser of Customs at New York. Novem- 
ber 30, 1900, Additional Analysis of Assafoetida. March 
31, 1902, The Composition of Commercial Cyanide of 
Potassium. February 28, 1903, Commercial Carbonate 
of Barium. Also two articles to Engineering and Mining 
"Journal, New York. 

"Am a member of the Society of Chemical Industry (Vice- 
chairman of the American Section 1902-1904) ; Member New 
York Customs Board of Civil Service Examiners, 189 1 to 
date; Member University, Princeton and Chemists Club, New 
York City; Chemist in charge Customs Laboratory, New 
York, as above stated. 

Degrees (all from Princeton) A.B., 1883; M.Sc. 1885; 
M.A. 1886. 

"Travelled some in this country; visited Boston, Chicago 
and Florida. Also in Mexico, 1895 See more of Howell 
than of any other '83 man. N. B. — New York City '83 
men are not gregarious. Heard of the very creditable 
record of Harlan '83 in Porto Rico as Attorney General. 
Also favorable reports of his character, ability and dis- 
position, which were no news to me. 

"I am doing all I can for Princeton in a quiet way. 
Have influenced some to go there, but cannot say how 
many. Have contributed occasionally to Princeton funds 
for various objects. Expect to attend Class Reunion 1903. 

"The fact that '83 is long enough graduated to have her 
children in college emphasizes that it is time to transfer 
questions like athletics, club house system, etc., to the 
younger generation, and to the graduate advisory committee 
who keep in touch with the students. Other questions 

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like curriculum are best handled by specialists. What the 
university most values is the hearty and loyal support of 
all her sons of all ages, and the class of '83 needs no urging 
in this direction. The wisdom that has guided Princeton 
in the past will merely not be wanting in the future and 
the ever increasing body of alumni will contribute a support 
which will not be the least of her sources of strength and 
honor. 

PROF. JOHN G. MURDOCK 

1827 7TH AVENUE, TROY, N. Y. 

" I am teaching — Professor of English in Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute, and Principal of University Troy 
Academy. Some people imagine I can teach a bit, — 
I have my own thoughts about that. Sure I am, that I 
can give out conditions plenteously. I've been called the 
"Headsman" in the R. P. I. Despite this fact, I am, 
I'm told (spare my blushes) — one of the most popular 
"profs" in the "Tute." Cause is — I try at least to be 
square and impartial, am always cracking bad jokes, not 
puns, and in general acting just as if I was a lad myself, 
while at the same time I demand some real knowledge of 
my subject. Similarly as Principal, no sham or cant is 
indulged in: "or your work or pay the penalty without 
whining." "Play hard, work hard." Here, too, I must 
ever be jollying, cracking jokes, and marking low. I can 
tell you, '83 was lucky that they didn't have me as an in- 
structor. I'd have conditioned more than half of them, 
sure as fate, and they'd have had a jolly time just the same. 
Oh! there's lots of fun to be had, even in serious work. 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

I'll not discuss public issues. I'll merely say I rather 
incline to anti-protection, have a growing belief that we 
need a great deal more of the socialistic ideals in our 
present government to counteract the extreme individu- 
alism of the day, and I believe the vast capitalistic aggre- 
gations of to-day are bound to result in the realizing more 
fully of a number of socialistic concepts. 

As to the Philippines, — I hold permanent dependencies 
are antagonistic to the fundamental concepts of the Ameri- 
can government. The muddle was generated at Paris, 
and I should like to know the inner workings of the Amer- 
ican Arbitrators in that matter. In the Philippines, as 
we are, we must stay for a time, but eventually we should 
get out of them finally and forever. 

As for my books and papers. The few scattered ad- 
dresses count as nought. Likewise the societies I may 
have joined. 

My travels are and were purely personal in result. So 
also of what I've done or am doing for Princeton. 

I can't take your time to discuss curricula, etc. Merely 
let me say, — there's more or less chaos in the educational 
world concerning the relations of secondary college and 
university ideals. Many colleges are asking secondary 
schools to do work which the college should do, while the 
college goes into a sham "universityising." Ridiculous 
requirements are being laid down for entrance into tech- 
nical and professional work. There's a rage for preten- 
tious requirements, and too little zeal for holding the stu- 
dents to real and effective acquisition. Enough. I hear 
the Club House System has ruined the lovely Princeton 
of our day. Does not B. A. mean Bachelor of Athletics .f* 

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The foot ball rules should be revised. The game now is 
brutal and deadly. 

But you have here more than enough. 

Personally I'm well, but that's of no consequence. 

RICHARD NORRIS 

Norris is in the manufacturing business (what kind he 
don't say) at 2415 Howard Street, Philadelphia; living in 
Queen Lane, Falls Schuylkill. He married Miss Sarah 
Dobson, at Falls Schuylkill, December 30, 1891, and has 
one child, Mary D. Norris, born March 10, 1901, in Ger- 
mantown. 

He says: "No travelling of any account, and see once in 
awhile, Duane, Bryant and Peace. 

"Doing all I can for Princeton — always talk her up 
strong in remembrance of good old times I had there." 

WILLIAM CHURCH OSBORN 

Osborn writes that he understands that he was born in 
Chicago, in 1862; he now lives in New York City, at 40 
East 36th Street, and practises law at 71 Broadway; he 
married Miss Alice Dodge, June 3, 1886, and has had five 
children, of whom there are now living Frederick Henry 
Osborn, due to enter the Class of 1910; Aileen C. Osborn, 
aged twelve; Earl Dodge Osborn, aged ten; and William 
Henry Osborn, aged nine. 

He says that the law is increasingly interesting and is 
making greater demands on time that, in a way, he would 
prefer to give to other interests; but it presents so many 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

points of contact with the more intimate life of the world 
which is so fascinating as a game that it is difficult to escape 
from it. While he has held some political positions in the 
last ten years, he has not been active in Democratic politics 




WILLIAM CHURCH OSBORN 



since 1896, when he resigned the Chairmanship of the 
Putnam County Democratic Committee for obvious reasons. 
In 1894 he was a member of the New York State Constitu- 
tional Convention, and in 1899 he was appointed by Gover- 
nor Roosevelt the legal member of the State Commission 
in Lunacy. This position for two and a half years took 



PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

up all of his days and nights in the care of some twenty 
five thousand insane. The work is more noticeable for 
the amount of work required than for any abounding 
cheerfulness or social zest. He feels, however, better 
qualified to deal with his fellow men after this experience, 
and offers any assistance in this line required by his class- 
mates. After he resigned this position he was elected 
President of the Children's Aid Society of New York City, 
which maintains schools for about eight thousand children 
and sends yearly about two thousand people out to the 
country in homes or to employment. This work occupies 
a large part of his time. He is also a Director of the Hos- 
pital for Ruptured and Crippled in New York City. 

He has a number of business interests, which, together 
with his law practice, keep him from feeling in danger of 
rusting. 

He thinks the requirements of the Princeton curriculum 
should not be increased for entrance or during the course, 
but that a far higher standard of thoroughness should be 
expected and more work should be required all the time 
to get a man through college. 

The question with regard to the club houses is un- 
doubtedly serious. The Ivy was built under the auspices 
of '83; since that time there has been a great extension, 
and, on the whole, the movement has been beneficial, but 
it should be still further extended so that practically every- 
one in the College would belong to some club. We all 
recollect that the old system of taking meals around at 
boarding houses meant poor food, poor surroundings, and 
oftentimes a lack of good fellowship. When Osborn was 
at Harvard Law School, he took his meals, for a winter, 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

at Memorial Hall, with a thousand other men. That 
looks democratic, but, in reality, it was horribly lonesome. 
The little crowd at one table knew each other fairly well, 
but saw absolutely nothing of the other men feeding at the 
Commons. Isolated, as Princeton is, from any large social 
centre, there is much to be said on the social life which the 
Club system introduces. The dangers are, of course, loaf- 
ing and snobbery, but those can be eliminated by the general 
sentiment of the College. 



REV. THOS. ROSS PADEN 

I would be pleased to have my name in '83's Record. 
I was in Princeton Seminary from '83 to '86; pastor at 
Buffalo, Minnesota, '86-'88; evangelist in Minnesota '88- 
'90; pastor at Lake Crystal and Amboy, Minnesota, '90- 
'95; pastor at Old Home Church, Pigeon Creek, Pa., '95- 
1900. Since then I have been at Westminster, Allegheny, 
Pennsylvania. 

Married, September 2, 1897, to Miss Margaret Sower, 
of Vernon Centre, Minnesota. Edward Oakley Paden, 
born October 25, 1898; Margaret Lucile Paden, born 
October 26, 1900; William Paden, born March 6, 1903. 
This is the family record as it is recorded on the fly leaf 
of an old edition of the Westminster Confession of Faith. 

When the two boys go to Princeton, I expect them to do 
only an honest day's work, and to enter heartily into college 
spirit and life and play. 

Sincerely, 

T. Ross Paden 

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DR. WILLIAM E. PARKE 



Following are the answers to your questions for the 
Record of our Twentieth Anniversary: 

Parke is a physician at 1739 North 17th Street, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. The following answers from his answers 
for the Record seem to indicate the temper of a confirmed 
bachelor: — Married? "To nobody — Nowhere — Never." 
Children ? "Of course not." 

He is the same as of yore — a Republican and a Presby- 
terian, and says he has written a few medical papers (all 
commonplace) and is a member of a number of Medical 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Societies — in some of which he has held office. Also that 
he is a member of the Princeton Club of Philadelphia. 

In 1902 he took a trip across the continent (to California) 
but encountered no classmates. 

He is helping Princeton by shouting when the oppor- 
tunity offers. 

REV. JOHN E. PARMLY 

John entered the ministry in 1894, and is now in charge 
of the Presbyterian Church at Atlantic Highlands, N. J. 
He married Miss Lucy W. MacDonald, April 8, 1885, in 
New Brunswick, N. J. 

In answer to the other questions submitted, he writes: 
"I believe in Free Trade as the best thing for even in- 
dividual countries in the long run. There ought to be 
local and national boards of arbitration for all matters 
relating to Capital and Labor, and in fact an international 
board. The very best and ablest people ought to be sent 
to fill positions in our "New Possessions," and, in fact, in 
all foreign lands. This will insure the respect and pre- 
eminence this country is entitled to in every part of the 
world — we simply can not afford any other course. Gov- 
ernmental allowances ought to be made with regard to 
our "New Possessions," especially in the way of prohibiting 
all traffic in liquor and certain drugs. In fact, it would 
be the best thing for this country if drastic measures should 
be adopted, especially as regards the making and importing 
and exporting of such articles. It is absolute folly to 
**haul up" a person for selling on Sunday (we are now 
dealing with the liquor question) what ought not to be sold 

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on any day, what ought not to be even made and sold 
except under Government control for such purposes as are 
absolutely necessary. To stop the leaks is of much more 
importance and infinitely more reasonable than to forever 
keep pumping out water. 

In politics I am a Republican, but am always willing to 
sacrifice the "party" to the "man." I am a Presbyterian. 
I long for the day when all denominational barriers will 
be swept away. I believe the day is not far distant when 
all the many religious denominations will be absorbed by 
no more than as many denominations as there are fingers 
on one's hand, all of them under the perfect control of the 
Great Hand that bled on Calvary for the redemption of the 
world, under the perfect control of the Great God — man 
who bears yet in glory the five wounds which he gladly re- 
ceived on the cross for the uplift of humanity to Heaven and 
God! In religion there must be a certain number of denom- 
inations for ease of control and efficiency of work, even as, 
of necessity, an army must be divided into various parts. 

I have written for various papers about three hundred 
articles, mostly an agricultural and religious topics. The 
oflRces I have filled are the following: Ruling Elder in the 
Presbyterian Church, Superintendent and Assistant Super- 
intendent of the Sunday School, President of the Local 
Union of Christian Endeavor, Evangelistic Superintendent 
of the Local Union of Christian Endeavor. While in 
Princeton I joined the "Cliosophic Society," and, while 
taking a Chemical and Agricultural Course in Rutgers 
College in '84, I joined the "Zeta Psi Fraternity." 

I am a firm believer in the "curriculum" giving a student 
the privilege of "electives" even as early in his course as 

IS 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

the Freshman year. SpeciaHzation is the great need of 
the day. The "Club House" system is fraught with the 
danger of the "Ring." Nothing can so "broaden" a 
fellow as the "Dormitory" system, working in conjunction 
with the athletic instructors there ought always to be a 
medical director. 

EDWARD COLEMAN PEACE 

Word comes that our champion athlete and all-round 
good fellow of college days, Edward Colefnan Peace, has 
been domiciled for two years past on a farm near Millwood, 
Virginia. His friends will be glad to learn that his health 
is very much improved as a result of his open-air life, and 
such volunteer attention as he gives to the detail of farm 
management. He rarely visits the city these days; but 
retains a warm interest in Princeton and college athletics. 
Rumor says that he is a prime favorite among his neigh- 
bors, being especially esteemed by a group of boys in the 
locality, whom he coaches in various forms of athletics. 

FREDERIC ANTEN COMBS PERRINE 

Perrine is First Vice President of the Stanley Electric 
Mfg. Co., at Pittsfield, Mass. He married Miss Margaret 
Roebling, at Trenton, N. J., June 28, 1893, and has three 
children: Margaret Perrine, Palo Alto, Cal.; Annie Allison 
Perrine, Palo Alto, Cal.; John A. Roebling Perrine, Pitts- 
field, Mass. 

He has written any quantity of papers, and is Editor of 
'Journal of Electricity, San Francisco, and Electrical En- 
gineering, Chicago. 

Book ; " Conductors for Electrical Distribution," New 

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York, 1903. He received Gold Medal Paris Exposition 
for engineering 150 mile Electrical Transmission Plant, 
a map of which was exhibited at Paris. 

Has travelled only in United States; often to California. 

Note. — Perrine made an honorable name and reputation 
for himself as a citizen in Pittsfield. He has since sold out 
his business interests there and has opened an office as 
Electrical Engineer in New York. His home is Plainfield, 
N.J. 




ROBERT DAVISON PETTY 

In reply to your questions, I send the following answers: 
Home, 890 West End Avenue, New York City. I am a 
member of the firm of Lamb & Petty, whose law office 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

is at 253 Broadway, New York City. I am also a professor 
in the New York Law School, located at 35 Nassau Street, 
New York City. 

I was married to Miss Florence Servis, on July 30, 1894, 
at Junction, New Jersey. My children are: Alice Petty, 
born June 22, 1895; Robert D. Petty, Jr., born April 12, 
1897; Mary B. Petty, born April 29, 1899; Elizabeth Petty, 
born May 5, 1901; John H. Petty, born July 2, 1903. 

In politics I am a Democrat. I am not a communicant 
of any church, but pay pew rent in two different Presby- 
terian churches. I belong to a few political and social 
societies. 

I have been once to Europe. I have been as far north 
as Montreal, as far west as Kansas City, Mo., and as far 
south as Washington, D. C. 

I belong to the Princeton Alumni Club of New York. 

FURMAN SHEPPARD PHILLIPS 

I herewith send you some answers to your questions for 
the compilation of a class history; and which you are free 
to abridge or blue pencil in whole or part. 

Address No. 450 Marshall Street, Philadelphia; Attorney 
at law. I have had but a reasonable measure of success, 
particularly from a pecuniary standpoint. 

I regard it as a mistake for a man like your humble 
servant, who only claims to possess ordinary average ability 
to take up a profession like the law, especially in our large 
cities, unless he enjoys influential connections or unless his 
father has preceded him in the same profession. It takes 
one generation to build up a remunerative clientele. 

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Another indispensable essential, in my opinion, is un- 
tiring industry and application which pre-supposes, of 
course, the possession of a robust and vigorous physical 
constitution. I am constitutionally nervous, and for many 
years Wcis as timid almost as a young girl, — entirely too 




FURMAN SHEPPARD PHILLIPS 

self-conscious and until within the last few years have 
always had a youthful appearance. I have been therefore 
badly handicapped in the great bread-and-butter struggle 
for existence. My advice to the ambitious young man just 
entering upon a profession like the law would be, above 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

all things, to court but one mistress at a time. Too many of 
us are attracted by the glamour of a political career to try 
our fortune in that field at the same time we are trying to 
build up a law practice. This is the mistake I have made. 
Political rewards, in my opinion, resemble to some extent 
the drawing of prizes in a lottery; the lucky few only can 
hope to win. And so in politics unless you are exception- 
ally gifted or have influential friends or connections who 
can push you into public notice, you can make a far better 
livelihood by devoting all your energies to your chosen 
profession. The words of Henry VIII's Lord High Chan- 
cellor are apropos in this connection. Wolsey has wisely 
said: "Had I but served my God with half the zeal that 
I have served my King, etc." Yes, if I had but stuck close 
to my desk during the last twenty years, I might have been 
able to render a better account of my stewardship. I 
essayed the political Hne and with my usual hard luck, 
have drawn a blank. For years, I enjoyed considerable 
prominence as a small fry ward politician. For a year or 
so was one of the Board of Editors of a monthly political 
Club Newspaper. The sheet was published by the Young 
Republicans of Philadelphia, an organization enjoying 
considerable political prestige in Philadelphia. To this 
monthly I contributed one or two articles on "The Ship 
Subsidy Bill" and during the Presidential campaign of 
1900 an article entitled "Democracy's PopuHstic Tenden- 
cies;" was one of the Board of Directors of the Young 
RepubUcans Club, but was finally swept into political 
oblivion after being prominently identified with the Union 
party, a local party, — born of a factional split in the dom- 
inant Republican party here in Pennsylvania. The Union 

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Party proved to be a short-lived political organization here 
in Philadelphia. The purpose of its existence was the v^rrest- 
ing of the great municipal interests of the metropolis of the 
Keystone state out of the hands of a corrupt Republican 
machine. The immediate campaign in which I met my 
Waterloo was the District Attorney's fight in 1901, when 
the Honorable P. F. Rothermel, a brother in law of "Tape" 
Bryant was ignominiously turned down by the machine 
in seeking a re-nomination as District Attorney upon the 
local Republican party ticket. Rothermel had made an 
efficient District Attorney. He was entitled to a second 
term, but the machine had no use for him, and refused 
to re-nominate him. The Hon. John Wanamaker was 
backing the Rothermel ticket against the machine's can- 
didate, the Hon. John Weaver, who has since been elected 
Mayor of Philadelphia. I took the "stump" for the Union 
party ticket, and howled Reform almost nightly upon the 
hustings. But as luck would have it, the machine elected 
their entire ticket with one exception, and I was, politically 
speaking, stranded. But this might have been overlooked 
had I not committed, from the ethical standpoint of the 
machine, the great, unpardonable sin, of insubordination, 
and for which dereliction I presume that I am to be politic- 
ally blacklisted as long as the present Quay machine is 
in control of this city of Brotherly Love. 

"The head and front of my offending," came about this 
way: Before the Union Party was fairly launched, I had 
been a stalwart Republican taking my orders like the rest 
of the followers of the machine. I had been honored by 
my ward by being made chairman of my ward delegation 
to the Judicial Convention, and as such chairman had 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

turned in the entire vote of the delegation for the candidates 
of the machine. But I was finally persuaded that political 
corruption had become so rampant, that it must be halted 
if Philadelphia was to maintain her fair name. I became 
converted to the Municipal Reform principles of the new 
Union Party. I was chosen to make the nominating 
speech of one of the candidates for Judge upon the Union 
Party ticket at their Judicial Convention and that, too, 
after I had officiated in the aforesaid capacity of chairman 
of my ward in the rival convention of the Regulars. Of 
course, a factional fight engenders very bitter feelings, and 
the two-horse bare-back feat of mine has subjected me ever 
since to a rigorous disciplinary course of treatment. I have 
been practically ostracized by my old political associates, 
and cannot even get appointed a member of the most in- 
significant committee, although I have long since returned 
to the stalwart fold and, in our last gubernatorial campaign, 
supported the Quay-Pennypacker ticket. 

I am still unmarried, although I think that my long and 
arduous probation as an exemplary old bachelor is now 
slowly drawing towards an end, and I trust by the time 
of '83's next Re-union, God willing, and more especially 
if my latest venture, the promotion of a North Carolina 
Mining Company, does not prove "the baseless fabric of 
a dream," to be numbered among the Benedicts. I have 
recently embarked into a North Carolina Gold Mining & 
Milling Co., located near Jamestown, Guilford County. 
North Carolina, one of the original gold fields of this 
country. Prior to the discovery of gold in California in 
1849, most all of the gold which found its way into the 
United States Mints came from the gold fields of North 

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Carolina, Virginia or Georgia. During the last year, 
northern capital has been attracted to this old gold belt 
along the Atlantic Coast, and all the available gold mines 
in North Carolina are being rapidly snatched up. 

Have been attending for several years past the Annual 
Dinner of the Philadelphia Princeton Alumni Association, 
and have in this way kept somewhat in touch with the '83 
men in Philadelphia; have seen a great deal of "Bennie" 
Mitchell who is a Professor in the Boys High School here. 
"Bennie" and I belong to the same Political Club. Have 
also seen considerable of "Johnnie" Smyser, who, I under- 
stand, has made a great deal of money in the drug line. 
Smyser is a prominent politician, being a member of our 
Common Council. 

I was present at Princeton's Sesqui-Centennial, and I 
treasure still in my possession a bronze medal commem- 
orating that event which I hope to hand down to coming 
generations. 

After witnessing the Yale Base Ball Game in the early 
summer of 1901 in company with that dear old base ball 
enthusiast, "Buck" Antrim, I was entertained by him as 
his guest over Sunday at his home in Bordentown, New 
Jersey. "Ike" was verily one of Nature's noblemen — 
magnanimous, big-hearted, and a true and loyal friend. 
His untimely death was a great shock to me. 

Expect to have a nephew of mine enter Princeton 
within the next two or three years. I accompanied him 
with his parents to Princeton to attend the Inaugural of 
President Woodrow Wilson, on which occasion I met 
"Billie" Fields, "Jack" Hodge, "Tape" Bryant, Rudd, 
Frank Roberts and Lawrason Riggs. 

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TWENTY YEARS J AFTER 
LATIMER H. PRESCOTT 

Your letter received, and I will try to be one of the prompt 
fellows this time. My home address is 69 Sibley Street, 
Cleveland, O. Business address, 30 Vincent Street, 
Cleveland, O. I'm in the printing business, and have had 
fair success so far, with good prospects, by hustling. 

Was married, September 19th, 1903, at Buffalo, N. Y., to 
Dr. Jeanette Oliver. 

At present I am inclined to favor a National Tariff 
Commission, and, by making the tariff, if possible, a purely 
business question, take the matter out of politics. I 
recognize the close, in fact absolute dependence on each 
other, of Labor and Capital; hold both can do harm or 
good, both need a good deal of delimitation before present 
recourse to strikes, boycotts and lockouts shall end; and 
I am very optimistic that the experience each gains year 
by year will bring an approximate solution of the so-called 
"contest;" — approximate — for it seems to me there will 
never be a solution complete so long as we human beings 
have wants, desires and ambitions. In other words, the 
more we have, the more we want, and every step success- 
fully taken on ambition's journey only widens the vista of 
ambition's possibilities. The motives back of the "strug- 
gle" between Capital and Labor are so deep-seated and 
far-reaching, that if such struggle ends, I'm inclined to 
think it will be because civilization has ended also, or like 
the Chinese, became comatose. 

"Our New Possessions " is a hard proposition, and endless 
in the far-reaching principles involved, — moral, legal, con- 
stitutional, religious, etc. Our course of action, and 

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methods, and aims, as I understand them, so far are accept- 
able to me. We carry the "burden" well. 

Since the Gold Democratic party went to pieces in Ohio, 
I'm more of an Independent than anything, though of 
recent years have given preference to the Republican party. 

Religious affiliations are slight, but Congregational what 
they are. On the other hand, I have done a great deal of 
religious reading along the "Higher Criticism" line, and 
been much influenced in judgments and beliefs by the 
results. Anyway, I'm satisfied no religion or creed has all 
the truth and nothing but the truth. 

Have written a work entitled "History of Criterion Lodge, 
No. 68, K. of P." A limited edition and for private cir- 
culation. I've written a great many essays at various times 
on various topics for societies I belonged to. One way or 
another, I've filled a good many offices in civic organiza- 
tions, or social, and once on a time that of captain in a semi- 
military organization. 

Have travelled very little, and that not noteworthy. 

I belong to the Princeton Alumni Association of Northern 
Ohio, and my eff'orts for Princeton have been mainly through 
it. I've made no will, nor given any money as yet. I 
haven't had any surplus. I'm planning to attend the 
Re-union. 

I'm not well enough posted to discuss University ques- 
tions. I am glad Princeton is so conservative on the 
"elective" system, which seems so vital a question nowa- 
days in college instruction and the educating of a man in 
the true sense. I take it a man goes to College, not to 
gather up a lot of facts or theories which he will carry into 
practical life, but he goes rather with his box of tools, the 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

brain, to have a sharp edge put on just as many of those 
tools as possible — the more the better. And the old grind- 
stone that puts on the edge — Greek, Latin, science, or 
what not — is of little importance compared with the edge 
itself. In fact most of us throw away the grindstone on 
graduation day, but how soon and how often that edged 

tool comes into use. 

Cordially yours for '83, 

L. H. Prescott. 

P. S. — Say, Rudd, I've had an idea floating around in 
my head of a plan to help Princeton's endowment. 

Omitting details, the plan is to get the custom started 
among the graduates to take out, say, each man, a ^1,000 
life insurance policy, payable on death to Princeton Univer- 
sity. It would be a small item of expense, and suppose for 
the last twenty-five years every graduate who has died had 
left the University ;^i,ooo, or in the coming twenty-five 
years, imagine what it will amount to if all, or nearly all, 
come in. We have had already, I suppose, at least twenty- 
five deaths in '83, and so if the plan were working, '83 
would have helped the endowment ^25,000, and the cost 
to those who carried it would have been very nominal. 

L. H. P. 

CHARLES ALEX. RICHMOND 

My dear Ed: 

It occurs to me that I have let all these weeks pass with- 
out sending you an account of myself. There is not much to 
tell. I have been a Presbyterian minister, as you know, 
for fifteen years — six in East Aurora and nine in Albany. 
It seems to have been my lot to build churches. 



PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 




CHARLES ALEXANDER RICHMOND 



At odd times I have written verse and set them to music — 
some of them. Novello, of New York, published a Httle 
collection of them a few years ago. I have lectured more 
or less here and there. Some magazine articles have ap- 
peared as the small fruit of my labors. 

In 1891, I married Miss Sarah Locke, of Buffalo, N. Y. 
We have had three children, all living: Margaret, aged ten, 
Frances, aged six, and Locke, aged five, and destined for 
Princeton. The above is my most creditable achievement. 

My life has been very happy and I try to be useful in the 
community as best I may. 

That is all there is of my story. I am President of the 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Princeton Alumni Association of Eastern New York, and 
we are flourishing. I have influenced a few boys for Prince- 
ton. I beheve in the old College, and will stand by it in 
any way I can. I admire especially her conservative stand 
in education as against some Yankee notions that have 
found their way into some well known centres of alleged 
culture. 

I am a member of a lot of things: The Albany Country 
Club, Fort Orange Club, Racquet Club, Fortnightly Club, 
Curling Club, Princeton Club of New York, The Cleris 
of Albany, President of Musical Association, and a few 
other organizations such as men get into and stay in by the 
force of inertia. 

The Twentieth Re-union of the Class was a joy to me, 
and I shall always be delighted to see any '83 men at 58 
Willet Street, Albany, N. Y. 

In 1899, I went to Europe, played golf at St. Andrew's, 
in Scotland, took in the Highlands, also Holland, Germany, 
Austria, shot a chamois in the Tyrol, by far the proudest 
achievement of my life, into Italy, to Spain, and so home. 

Note. — Since writing the above, Richmond has celebrated 
the tenth anniversary of his pastorate over the Madison 
Avenue Presbyterian Church, Albany. 

LAWRASON RIGGS 

My present home address is 814 Cathedral Street, 
Baltimore; present business address, Calvert Building, 
Baltimore. As for my profession, "Jack" Hodge says I 
am part lawyer and part banker. 

I have never been married to any one, at any place, or 
at any time. 



PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 




LAWRASON RIGGS 

In view of my answer to the last question, it brings the 
blush of modesty to my cheek to be asked about the num- 
ber and sex of my children. 

I talked so much and on so many subjects at the Re- 
union, that I am sure you will excuse me from saying any- 
thing more now. 

I have made no contributions to literature; but, as you 
know, I wear a military title. 



Note. — In the person of Lawrason Riggs, the Class of 
'83 enjoys a representative in Baltimore who is probably 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

as prominent a citizen as anyone of equal years in that city. 
As a member of the bar he gives personal attention to the 
management of large vested interests, including the direc- 
tion of his deceased father's estate. While he is brought 
most prominently before the public as Brigadier-General 
in command of the Militia of Maryland — serving his second 
term in that capacity — his personality is impressed on many 
other organizations of an educational, philanthropic and 
business character. In this connection may be instanced 
the fact that he was formerly President of the Baltimore 
Country Club; of the Baltimore Club. He is novs^ one of 
the Vice Presidents of the Geographical Society of Balti- 
more, and is also identified with the administration of the 
Peabody Institute, and besides a Director in several in- 
fluential financial institutions. He takes much interest 
in the success of an Episcopal church located in one of the 
less fashionable parts of the city. For three summers past 
he has enjoyed, with his classmate Bryant, vacation cruises 
of two weeks duration on the Maine coast in the schooner 
yacht "Laurus," owned by Bryant. 

FRANK CALVIN ROBERTS 

Roberts's home address is 13 South 21st Street, Phila- 
delphia. He is a Civil Engineer and senior member of 
firm of Frank C. Roberts & Co., Real Estate Trust Co. 
Building, Philadelphia. 

Married May 26, 1886, to Miss Amy Paxton, at Princeton, 
N. J., and has had five children. Caroline Paxton Roberts, 
born in Philadelphia, November 24 1887, died May 4, 
1888; Katherine Roberts, born in Philadelphia, May 27, 

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1889; William Paxton Roberts, born in Philadelphia, Feb- 
ruary 9, 1892; Frank C. Roberts, Jr., born in Philadelphia, 
May 4, 1894; Harmar Denny Roberts, born in Philadelphia, 
February 6, 1899. 




FRANK C. ROBERTS 



He says: " I think it is a little premature for me to specify 
what Princeton classes my boys will enter. It is my in- 
tention to send them all to Princeton, and I hope that 
nothing will interfere. 

" I am a member of the Presbyterian church. Republican. 

" My professional engagements have involved travel to 
almost all parts of the United States east of the Mississippi 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

River, and over a considerable portion of the Dominion 
of Canada. I have also visited England twice during the 
past eighteen months. 

"I see Harry Bryant more than any other member of the 
class. Harry is continuing to make a good reputation 
for himself in the various lines of v^ork in vphich he is in- 
terested. I think there are very few men in our Class who 
are as much respected in the community in which they live, 
as Harry Bryant. 

"I am a member of the Princeton Club of Philadelphia, 
and I am doing what I can for Princeton. I think that my 
arguments have contributed in a very modest way to the 
number of students that entered Princeton." 

Note. — Roberts has been splendidly received with hon- 
ors and orders in England. His work there has gained 
much personal recognition and is modifying English 
methods of construction in steel. 

EDWIN MILTON ROYLE 
Royle writes himself an actor and dramatist, address 
care of Dr. S. K. Royle, 105 West 76th Street, New York 
City. He married Miss Selena Fetter in New York City, 
October 16, 1892, and has one child, Josephine Fetter 
Royle, born at Avon-by-the-Sea, N. J. 

He says: "I think the Club House system the ruin of the 
Halls (Clio and Whig) which until the advent of the Clubs 
were the best that Princeton had to offer her children; 
and the clubs with their snobbery and distinctions are the 
death of the next best thing in Princeton — her fine old in- 
tellectual democracy." Cordially yours, 

Edwin Milton Royle, 

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DR. SINCLAIR K. ROYLE 

Sinclair K. Royle is a physician, and regarding his 
success says: " My inborn modesty arises here, and makes 
it rather difficult to be personal. I have much to be thank- 
ful for. Suffice it to say, I dine, and eat beef a couple of 
times a day, if I want it! Also some of Charley Rich- 
mond's father-in-law's shredded wheat biscuit." His 
address is 105 West 76th Street, New York City. 

He married Miss Mary E. Cross, of Newark, N. J., at 
Denver, Colorado, November 9, 1889, and regarding his 
children writes: "I have none, but I am mighty handy in 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

helping other people out when theirs come along — for 
revenue only." 

He is a Democrat, and a Presbyterian. Princeton! 
Princeton! Princeton! Class of '83. 

He graduated M. D. University State of New York, 
June, 1896, and was appointed Examiner for the Pruden- 
tial Insurance Company, January, 1897. Still holds the 
job, and is visiting physician to the Metropolitan Hospital, 
Blackwell's Island, a municipal institution. 

He writes: " I have travelled pretty much over the United 
States. Had delightful visits in my old home in Salt Lake 
City, Utah, from Rudd, Ward, Bob McKnight (before he 
died) Riggs, Morgan, Howell, and Bob Speir. Since I 
have lived in New York City, I regret to say that the only 
members of the Class of '83 who have called on me have 
been Ward, Rudd, Jack Hodge, and Billy Agnew. This 
is not as it should be. The latch string on my door is out 
for my classmates. It's getting rusty, needs pulling. 

" Whenever the opportunity offers, I work for dear Old 
Princeton. Am a member of the Princeton Alumni Club 
of New York City." 

REV. JAMES C. RUSSELL, D.D. 

" I have little that is new to tell you about myself. I 
spent the first seven and a half years of my ministry at 
Horseheads, N. Y. I began my work in the Second 
Church, of Camden, N. J., September, 1893, and re- 
mained there six years. I became pastor of the First 
Church of Oneonta, N. Y., September, 1899. I have 
nearly completed my fourth year in this my third charge. 

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Last week my congregation increased my salary $300 and 
added two more weeks to my vacation. I am very happily 
situated and enjoy my work. I was married to Miss Eda 
Sears, March 7, 1888. I have two children, Henry Sears 




REV. JAMES C. RUSSELL, D.D. 

Russell, born February 13, 1890, and Marjorie Russell, 
born August 19, 1891. 

" I have traveled some in the British Provinces. I have 
been to the Pacific Coast and spent one summer abroad. 

"I received the degree of A.M. from Princeton and D.D. 
from Rutherford College, N. C. 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

" I have not changed my poHtics nor my rehgion since I 
left college. 

"I have tried to exert an influence for old Princeton v^hen- 
ever I possibly could. I enclose my photograph. 

" Very cordially yours, in the bonds of '83, 

"J. C. Russell." 

REV. EDWARD HUNTTING RUDD 

Rudd writes from the old town of Dedham, Mass., ten 
miles from Boston, on the New York, New Haven and 
Hartford Railroad, where he is Pastor of the historic First 
Congregational Church, organized 1638. It is an inter- 
esting coincidence that his maternal ancestor, John Hunt- 
ting, the founder of one branch of the Huntting family in 
America, was the first ruling elder and officer of the church 
in 1638, of which Rudd is now pastor; and that John Hunt- 
ting and John Dwight, the founder of the Dwight family, 
Mrs. Rudd's paternal ancestor, were made Freemen of the 
Town of Dedham, on the same day, February 16, 1638. 

Rudd has had a varied and interesting experience since 
the last Record. He left, after four happy years in Albany, 
N. Y., his first pastorate, to go to Albion, New York, in 
1886; he then accepted the office of Assistant Minister with 
the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst, of the Madison Square 
Presbyterian Church, New York City. After spending 
nearly three strenuous years with that noted reformer and 
preacher, Rudd, with his family, went abroad for a year 
of study and travel, acting as tutor for another student, and 
spent the winter of 1899 and 1900 as students at the Uni- 
versity of Bonn, Germany, and later visited nearly all the 
German universities, hearing one or more of the professors 

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at each. A very thorough tour was made through much of 
Europe and Great Britain, and on his return, he accepted 
the call to the church at Dedham, Mass. 

Rudd was married on September 29, 1887, to Mary 
Winslow Dwight, of Pittsfield, Mass., and they have three 




REV. EDWARD HUNTTING RUDD 

children, all born at Albion, New York: Henry Williams 
Dwight Rudd, born February 7, 1893; Bessie Huntting 
Rudd, born June 6, 1895; and Edward Huntting Rudd, Jr., 
born October 15, 1896. Two of these, Rudd hopes to have 
take their sheepskin from his Alma Mater. 

Since he has been a member of the Congregational body 
in New England, he has been elected as a member of the 

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Board ot Directors of the Massachusetts Home Missionary 
Society and is chairman of the Co-Operating Committee 
of the Prudential Committee of the American Board of 
Commissioners of Foreign Missions. He is President of 
the Federation of Men's Church Clubs, of New England. 

He is also a member of the Board of Governors of the 
Mayflower Society of New England. The Publication 
Committee, of which he is acting chairman, are editing and 
publishing the Vital Records of the Cape Cod Towns. 

He is chaplain of the Society of Sons of the Revolution of 
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In April, 1902, 
Rudd represented the Massachusetts Society at the Trienn- 
ial meeting at Washington, D. C, and again for April, 1905. 

Rudd is a loyal Republican and believes the country 
made no mistake when it entered upon its manifest duty and 
privilege of extending a national interest and sympathy 
towards its so-called "new possessions." He does not be- 
lieve, however, they should ever become States of the 
Union, but that when they are ready for it, they should be 
given their freedom, as was Cuba. 

As in the other sections of the country where he has re- 
sided, he has loyally studied the interests of "Old Nassau," 
and has sent several students there. He finds the ministry 
more interesting and attractive than ever and preaches with 
Christian optimism, the gospel of hope and cheer. 

He is at present first Vice-President of the New England 
Alumni Association, which he helped to reorganize several 
years ago. Incidentally he asks every man in the class of 
'83 to keep him, as Secretary, posted regarding any event of 
class interest, especially of marriages, births, or deaths, or 
change of residence, business partnerships, etc., etc. 

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REV. FREDERICK NEWMAN RUTAN, Ph.D. 

Fred's present home address is Wrentham, Mass., where 
he is Pastor of the old Congregational Church, going there 
in 1904 from Menands, Albany, N. Y. 

He married Miss Charlotte Crosby Starr, at Monticello, 
Sullivan County, N. Y., June 24, 1891, and has two chil- 
dren: Frederick Starr Rutan, born April 29, 1892, at 
Montclair, N. J., who will be ready for college in June, 
1909, and Grace Huntington Rutan, born June 2, 1893, at 
Montclair, N. J. 

In regard to his writings, he says : Of recent papers may 
make mention of Thesis for Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 
"The Personality of God;" with examination papers pre- 

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sented to the Faculty of Montezuma University, Bessemer, 
Alabama, in 1900. Thesis on "Equity" for Degree of 
Bachelor of Laws, after two years course of lectures in 
Albany Law School of Union University in 1901; followed 
in 1902 by papers before the Bar Examining Board, State 
of New York. Paper on the musical works of Charles 
Camille Saint-Saens, read before the Diatonic Club of 
Albany, N. Y., in March, 1903. Paper on the present 
status of the Presbyterian Church read before the Presby- 
tery of Albany, in April, 1903. 

He is a member of the Princeton Club of New England at 

Boston. 

WILLIAM C. SCOTT 

Scott is married and lives at Haverford, Pa., where he 
takes an active part in the social life of that fashionable 
suburb. "Billy" is a Ph. D., of the University of Penn- 
sylvania, and is said to be learned in the Roman Law, et al. 
He takes little interest in Princeton, and has never attended 
any of the Class Reunions, has sent no reply to the Secre- 
tary's appeal, nor any photo. 

ROBERT F. SHANKLIN 

"I was truly sorry not to be able to get to Princeton to 
greet my old classmates last June, and am equally sorry 
now that I am so late in answering your circular letter. 
Every year it seems as though one's business exactions 
become more strenuous, or at least, it seems to me that 
every time I plan to get away on a pleasure trip, some- 
thing of importance in a business way turns up to keep me 
at my desk. I had planned to get to the Reunion without 

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fail, but just a day or two before it was time for me to 
start, an old fool of a matter which had been quietly 
slumbering for several months awoke, and like a faithful 
nurse, I had to be on hand to administer to its wants. 

I have really nothing particular to report of myself. I 
am still a bachelor, and without matrimonial prospects. 
My life is simply the daily strenuous grind for which Chicago 
is famous. I have been reasonably successful, and have 
become imbued with the spirit of the place and, therefore, 
like to be busy. Aside from the usual summer vacation 
trips and one journey abroad, I have scarcely been out of 
my office for several years. 

I should be glad to receive the report from all the fellows. 
I understand that the Reunion was a great success, and 
I regret for that reason all the more that I was not among 
those present. 

JOHN RIEMAN SMYSER 

John Rieman Smyser has been associated with a Mr. 
Scott in the retail drug business under the firm name of 
Smyser & Scott, at 3952 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia. 
He is said to have been successful in this line of work, but 
since graduation has not been actively identified with 
Princeton interests in the city. 

ROBERT WADE SPEIR 

Bob is Vice President of the Green River Asphalt Co., 
at Bowling Green, Kentucky. 

He married Miss Nanni S. Barker, April 7, 1896, at 

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Baltimore, Maryland, and has one son, Robert Wade 
Speir, Jr., born April 17, 1897, who will enter Princeton 
about Class of 1918. 

For his political affiliations he is unable to find a more 
satisfactory term than "Mugwump." 




ROBERT SPEIR 



He says: I have travelled through most of the States, 
but seldom happen to run across any classmates, excepting 
in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore. The longest 
"continuous performances" in the visiting line were stay- 
ing a week with Bob Shanklin in 1893, and a week yachting 
with Harry Bryant, on the Maine Coast in '01. 



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I am a Radical on the foot ball question, and believe 
in getting back to old English Rugby, pure and simple. 
This is my conviction after staying in the game itself up 
to '96, and seeing almost all of the big games since. 

DR. JAMES THOMAS SWEETMAN, JR. 

Sweetman is a physician at 25 Front Street, Ballston 
Spa, N. Y., and has a fair measure of success. He married 
May 8, 1889, Miss Susie P. Boyd, at Washington, D. C. 
Has no children. 

He v^rites that he is "too busy for discussions." He is 
a Republican and a Presbyterian. Also member of New 
York State Medical Association and American Medical 
Association, and Trustee of Public Library. 

His travelling has been limited to short vacation trips 
to Adirondacks, and a trip to Nova Scotia. Says he is 
"talking Princeton at every opportunity." "Life is too 
short," he adds to discuss University questions. 

SIDNEY RICHMOND TABER 

I take pleasure in sending the following answers to your 
questions, hoping that every man in '83 will do likewise. 

Present addresses: The Brambles, Lake Forest Illinois; 
532 Monadnock Block, Chicago, Illinois. Am an attorney 
at law, and have tolerable success. 

On October 18, 1890, I married Miss Julia Biddle Cox, 
at Grace Church, Orange N. J. I have two children : 
Arthur Richmond Taber, born Far Rockaway, L. I., July 
22, 1893; Lydia Richmond Taber, born Lake Forest, 

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SYDNEY RICHMOND TABER 



Illinois, December 20, 1897. My boy will enter the Class 
of 1915 (that is, if I have anything to say about it). 

My ideas about the Tariff, Capital and Labor, were 
pretty well exploited in the Class Record of 1893, and have 
not changed since then. I am bitterly opposed to both 
protection and trades unionism, because both seem to me 

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unjust; the former violates the right to buy wherever one 
pleases without putting money into the pockets of a favored 
class; and the latter, as now developed, violates the right 
not only to buy labor of whom, where and on what terms 
one chooses, but also denies the sacred right to work. 

The public question that has within the past ten years, 
most profoundly excited my interest is the war in the Philip- 
pine Islands. I have no quarrel with expansion per se, 
so long as it is honest and just. It is because I believe 
that our subjugation of the Filipinos was neither of these 
that I utterly abhor the whole business. The Philippine 
war seems to me to present the question, "Is it right to 
kill the natives of foreign lands because they wish to govern 
themselves?" Not "Is it profitable,".'' or "Is it expe- 
dient?" or, "Is it benevolent?" But "Is it right?" To 
my mind there can be but one answer, and especially by 
the people of our own land, who stand irrevocably com- 
mitted to the doctrine of the "Consent of the governed." 
Besides, there were peculiar circumstances that made our 
course especially ignoble. We were morally estopped to 
wage war against a people who co-operated with us, at 
our invitation, in military operations against the Spanish 
forces, and whom we had led to believe, and who did, in 
fact, believe, that we should help in establishing their in- 
dependence. Instead, even, of frankly recognizing that 
we were impelled by the old Anglo-Saxon assumption of 
superiority and the lust for land and dominion, we dis- 
guised our natives in the alleged purpose of "benevolent 
assimilation." As Lincoln once said (of those who "be- 
strode the necks of a people — not that they wanted to do 
it, but because the people were better off for being ridden") 

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"Turn it every way you will — whether it come from the 
mouth of a king. ... or from the men of one race as a 
reason for enslaving the men of another race, it is all the 
same old serpent." We had spiked our guns at the outset 
of the Cuban war by calling Heaven to witness that the 
Cubans — (and precisely the same declaration applied in 
spirit to that other people then struggling to free itself from 
the Spanish yoke) — "are and of right ought to be free and 
independent." Finally, if war must have been waged in 
the Philippines, we ought at least to have carried it on 
with due respect for the rules of the game. But there is 
abundant evidence to the effect that (in gross violation 
of the "General Order" under which our operations were 
supposed to be conducted) there were frequently given 
orders to take no prisioners and that no quarter be given; 
that wounded prisoners were killed; that villages were 
wantonly burned and the country laid waste, and that 
thousands of the prisoners were systematically subjected 
to excruciating tortures. The War Department has shown 
the strongest desire to shield the offenders, either doing 
nothing at all to stop these barbarities, or else conducting 
partial or half-hearted investigations. Even where a rare 
conviction was secured for torturing natives by hanging 
them by the neck the offender was sentenced to — a re- 
primand! And the sentence of a lieutenant convicted of 
"killing a prisoner of war" (an offense punishable by 
"death or other severe punishment") was commuted to a 
loss of numbers and half-pay for a few months! Finally, 
Mr. Root, whose duty to the Army and to the American 
people demanded the utmost vigilance and the most search- 
ing investigation, so far from fulfilling that duty, has issued 

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statements as to the methods pursued in this war that are 
misleading and untrue. 

And it seems to me that the President has not been with- 
out grave fault in this connection. His promise that 
"every instance of barbarity on the part of our troops" 
would be detected and punished is very far from being 
fulfilled. It is hard to reconcile this with what has been 
called his "passion for fair play" — for which (as well as 
many other qualities) I admire him extremely. I also 
hold him in great admiration as a champion of the civil 
service reform idea (which still seems to me the only rational 
method of political preferment;) and yet, in common with 
his other admirers, I received a terrible shock when he 
appeared to eat his own words (spoken in characteristically 
vigorous denunciation of the spoils-system and of Clark- 
son), by his appointment to office of that very arch-spoils- 
man. Some of his other appointments and his alliance 
with corrupt party leaders seem to me inconsistent with his 
best self and utterly indefensible. Mr. Roosevelt, being 
confronted by what Stevenson called "the great double 
difficulty of taking life too easily and taking it too hard," 
appears to err on the side of excessive strenuousness. To 
illustrate my meaning: During his recent visit to Califor- 
nia, when we were hearing a great deal about our "domin- 
ating" the Pacific, a newspaper commented on "what Mr. 
Roosevelt didnt say: He that is slow to anger is better than 
the mighty, and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that ruleth 
the Pacific." 

My political affiliations can be guessed from the fore- 
going remarks. As to religious matters, I attend the 
services of the Episcopal church. 

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In 1893 my little book entitled "The Law of Assign- 
ment" (in Illinois) was published. 

I served a term as councilman in the borough where I 
live, and am now a member of the Public Library Board. 
For several years I was President of a literary and social 
club known as the "Art Institute" of Lake Forest, and at 
present am presiding over the destinies of the Winter Club 
of the same place. Several years ago, I became a life 
member of the Chicago Art Institute. 

I believe that war is hellish in its cruelty; a savage sport, 
in which brute force — albeit directed by brains, — wins; 
and in which justice plays about as much part as in a dog- 
fight. I believe that the only sane method of settling in- 
ternational disputes is afforded by arbitration, and nothing 
in the history of our country fills me with as much pride 
as the fact that she has so often taken the initiative in that 
kind of sentiment. The movement that was initiated at 
The Hague by establishing an international court (though 
generations of time may be needed for its consummation), 
constituted, to my mind, the greatest stride towards civili- 
zation that the world has taken in centuries. Entertaining 
these views, it seemed to me that I was a fit candidate for 
membership in the American Peace Society, and so became 
a life member. And I look forward confidently to the 
time — probably another matter of centuries — when an 
International Legislature will enact laws in respect to in- 
ternational relations, and when such laws will be construed 
by an International Court to which the parties will be haled 
by an International Police. 

There is, however, another application of the idea of 
Justice which especially appeals to me, and to partially 

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realize which it is not necessary to wait quite so long as 
centuries. Of late years my interest has been increas- 
ingly aroused by the rights of dumb animals, — their right 
to protection and to kind and fair treatment at the hands 
of their human brothers. No one, I think, can long in- 
vestigate this subject without, at least in spirit, echoing the 
classic exclamation, "The more I see of men, the more I 
think of dogs." No one, who has not investigated the 
subject, can have any conception of the extent, degree and 
variety of the sufferings of animals resulting from human 
thoughtlessness, selfishness, greed, brutality and devilish- 
ness. Let every man of '83 join the S. P. C. A. in his 
district; and if there be none there, let him organize one! 
There is another side to humane treatment, in addition 
to the results to the dumb animals, and that is the effect 
upon human animals, and so upon the State. Is there 
any better object-lesson in the learning of kindness and 
justice than that afforded a child by his relations with the 
helpless and dumb ? And are there any attributes that, 
more than these, make for righteousness and good-citizen- 
ship .? With these convictions, I became a life member and 
a Director of the Illinois Humane Society, the Special 
Agent of the Society in Lake Forest, and a member of the 
Anti-Cruelty Society in Chicago. I have been for the 
past two years Secretary of the American Humane Associa- 
tion, a league composed of societies for preventing cruelty 
to children and animals throughout the country. The 
special form of cruelty that most interests me is that re- 
sulting from the practice of vivisection, — simply because 
I believe that the agony for which this is responsible is 
more excruciating than that of any other form. This 

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belief is based upon the testimony of physicians themselves. 
Although the evidence as to the utility of the practice is 
conflicting, I defer to the opinion of many prominent 
medical men, and therefore have not joined the ranks of 
the prohibitionists; but in order to bring the practice within 
reasonable bounds, I am at present organizing a society 
that w^ill seek to curb the present license by which any con- 
ceivable atrocity is allowed, so long as it is done in the 
name of science. 

Now, as I have written far too much in answer to your 
first six questions, I shall pass over my "seventhly," 
"eighthly," and "ninthly." But let this be my "lastly": 

You ask, "What are you doing for Princeton?" I do 
not believe that a man's service to his Alma Mater is limited 
by the number of students he sends thither, the number 
of alumni clubs that he belongs to, or the amount of money 
he gives or bequeaths. No more can a man's patriotism 
be measured alone by the number of bullets he fires, the 
accuracy of his aim, nor the number of enemies that he 
kills; not even by the extent of his success in violating his 
neighbor's rights to sleep and to the pursuit of happiness, 
on the annual festival of noise and carnage, with which we 
celebrate the national birthday. Lord Russell once used 
these words, which I believe the present age especially would 
do well to ponder: 

"What indeed is true civilization?" By its fruit you 
shall know it. It is not dominion, wealth, material luxury, 
nay, not even a great literature and education widespread — 
good though these things be. Civilization is not a veneer. 
It must penetrate to the very heart and core of societies 
of men. Its true signs are thought for the poor and sufFer- 

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ing, chivalrous regard and respect for women, the frank 
recognition of human brotherhood, irrespective of race or 
color, or nation or religion, the narrowing of the domain of 
mere force as a governing factor in the world, the love of 
ordered freedom, abhorrence of what is mean and cruel 
and vile, ceaseless devotion to the claims of justice." The 
man who honestly strives to contribute towards the reali- 
zation of this ideal is, to my thinking, doing something for 
Princeton, for his country, and for the world. 
Yours sincerely, 

Sidney Richmond Taber 

CHARLES VANCE THOMPSON 

No word has been received from Vance Thompson since 
he graduated. A recent writer in the press speaks of his 
having taken his degree at Jena in Germany after leaving 
Princeton. While there, he met that brilliant musical com- 
poser, the late Ethelbert Nevin; Thompson wrote many 
verses and librettos, for which Nevin composed the music. 
In Journalism he made his debut as a special writer for the 
New York Mail and Express, and was afterward dramatic 
critic for the Commercial Advertiser. With Huneker, he 
founded and conducted "M'Ue New York," that "Roman 
candle among New York periodicals." In Chicago he 
founded the "Whitechapel Club." At the opening of the 
Paris Exposition in 1900, he won immediate recognition by 
his correspondence. His book, "French Portraits," a critic- 
al biography of the newer French writers, created wide com- 
ment. He was, for a time, Paris correspondent of the New 
York Evening Post. He was selected by de Blowitz to pub- 

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lish his Memoirs. Thompson Hves "in a queer house near 
the Bois, in Paris, a house once owned and occupied by Boi- 
leau, the poet. Here once gathered Racine and MoHere, 
and others." 



DR. HENRY A. TOWLE 

Henry is a nose and throat speciahst at 1 1 Halsey Street, 
Newark, N. J. He married Miss Annie A. Hauck, of 
Newark, April 1 8, 1888, and has five children: Mary 
Imogen; Lucia, Henry A. Jr.; George H.; Gerarda. The 
only official position he holds is that of chief of Nose and 
Throat Clinic of the City Dispensary of Newark. 



REV. HARTLEY TITUS UPDIKE 

In answer to your questions, my present home address 
is 128 Division Street, Trenton, N. J. Business address 
137 East State Street, Trenton, N. J. Am at present in 
the real estate business, occasionally preaching. 

Married at Kansas City, Mo., July 21, 1891, to Miss 
Virginia E. Blackwood. Children: Helen Terhune Up- 
dike, born and died August 23, 1894, at Livonia, Ind.; 
Archibald Raymond Updike, born E)ecember 21, 1895, at 
Livonia, Ind.; Mary Ella Updike, born March 20, 1898, 
at Trenton, N. J.; Wesley Russell Updike, born February 
22, 1900, Trenton, N. J. 

I would like my sons to graduate in 1917 and 1921, 
respectively. 

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I am a Republican and a Presbyterian. 
I have travelled pretty well over the United States and 
Canada, but nowhere else. 

Your affectionate classmate, 

H. T. Updike. 

COL. EDWARD VOLLRATH 

I am in receipt of your circular and list of questions for 
data to be used in our Twentieth Anniversary Class Record. 
Your questions cover quite a large field, but I will try to 
answer them faithfully and concisely. 

My present address is Bucyrus, Ohio; I am an attorney 
at law, and am making a living. 

Married, June 27, 1888, to Miss Minnie Wise, at Bucy- 
rus, Ohio, and have five children: names Jeanne, Edna, 
Victor, Carol and Edward, Jr.; have not selected class at 
college for any of them. 

I will reserve my judgment with regard to discussions; 
I am still a Republican in politics and Lutheran in my 
church connection. 

Whether unfortunately, or otherwise, I have not written 
any book, nor can I think of any "paper" that would 
merit the distinction of notice in the Record. Served in 
the Siege of Santiago de Cuba as Major, Eighth Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, and am at present Colonel of the Eighth 
Ohio National Guard. 

Trusting that the above may answer your requirements, 
and wishing you all success and an enjoyable Reunion, 
I remain, 

Very respectfully, 

Edward Vollrath. 

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REV. MINDO G. VULCHEFF 



Mindo VulchefF is connected with the University of the 
State of New York, Capitol, Albany, N. Y., and lives at 
182 Delaware Avenue, Albany. 

He married Miss Louise Turner, of Hoosick Falls, N. 
Y., December 13, 1887, and has had two children: Kalia 
Margarita, born July 22, 1895; Andrew Embury, born 
January 31, 1897, died June 11, 1898. 

He says: "The Civil Service men are supposed not to 
have politics. I am a Presbyterian." 

He has written a text-book on International Law (Bul- 

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garian), articles on the Eastern Question, translated "The 
Greatest Thing in the World" into Bulgarian, but has 
done nothing in English yet ready for publication. 
Has seen much of Europe and a little of Asia. 

FRANCIS RAWLE WADLEIGH 

Wadleigh is in the coal business, and lives at 515 Raleigh 
Street, Bluefield, W. Va., address Box 732. 

He married Miss Mariana Rogers, at Petersburg, Va., 
March 23, 1898, and has one child: Francis Rawle Wad- 
leigh, Jr., born June 9, 1899, Petersburg, Va. 

He writes: " Am a Roosevelt Republican and member 
of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 

" I have written a number of papers and reports, 'princi- 
pally on combustion, analysis and tests of coal and on vari- 
ous railroad subjects. Not a member of any society. 

" Have travelled all over United States, except far West, 
Nova Scotia, Mexico, West Indies, Colombia, Eucador, 
Peru, Bolivia and Chili. Have visited Procter several 
times. 

" Do not know that I have done much for Princeton, and 
am not aware of having sent any students there. Am not 
a member of any Alumni Club." 

THOMAS B. WANAMAKER 

I am in receipt of your circular, asking for statistics 
for the Class Record. 

My address is Thirteenth and Market Streets, Phila- 
delphia. 

I was married to Mary Lowber Welsh, in Philadelphia, 
April 27, 1887. I have one child, a boy. His name is 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Rodman Wanamaker, 2d. He was born on October 10, 
1899. He will go to Princeton, I hope, just as soon as he 
is able. 

Yours very sincerely, 

Thomas B. Wanamaker. 

A. C. WARD, M.D. 

"A. C." is too busy to write much. He is a practising 
physician in Newark, N. J., and is a medical examiner for 
the Prudential Life Insurance Company. His greatest suc- 
cess, however, was the altogether admirable" pair of twins" 
exhibited at the Reunion. 

PROF. ANDREW WILKINS WILSON, JR. 

Andy is a teacher and principal of the Kiskiminetas 
Springs School; his home, Saltsburg, Pa. 

He married Miss Bessie Gladys Sanson, in Indiana, Pa., 
August 22, 1889, and has five children. Sarah Sansom, 
June 13, 1890, Indiana, Pa.; Anna Graham, November 
7, 1891, Saltsburg; Elizabeth, May, 11, 1893, Saltsburg, 
died March 18, 1895; Gladys Margaret, August 9, 1898; 
Ella May, April 20, 1900. 

He is a Presbyterian in religious faith; a mugwump in 
politics. His only degree is Ph. D., from Washington and 
TefFerson College. 

He has been to Europe, but says he is "Too busy and 
poor to travel much." No classmates save Barclay, he 
adds, are in his vicinity. He is doing well and has a boy 
entered at Princeton Class of 1920. 

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Wilson has sent 100 boys to Princeton, and says of his 
work, "We are so full this year, that our school will not 
hold the applicants." 

CHARLES GEORGE WILSON 
Wilson is running a restaurant at 4 Bridge Street, Jack- 
sonville, Florida, and says he is earning a living, and little 



AARON CONDIT WARD 



more. His home is at 904 W. Monroe Street, Jacksonville. 
He married October 20, 1885, Jennie L. Kininger, at 
Bowling Green, O., and has three children: Margaret, Jan- 
uary 16, 1887, Rose Hill, Fla.; Abby, July 23, 1891, Ells- 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

worth, Kansas; Lois, November lo, 1895, Winter Haven, 
Fla. 

He is a Republican, and a Presbyterian; is a Mason, and 
has been a Postmaster. Made a trip to Denver, Colorado, 
in 1891, and has influenced one man for Princeton. 

REV. FRANK CHURCHILL WOODS 

On May 15, 1904, Frank Woods became the pastor of 
the large Presbyterian Church at Moorestown, N. J., 
moving there from his former home at Upland, Delaware 
County, Pa. 

He married Miss Virginia Lee Hall, of Baltimore, 
October 5, 1887, and has four children: Robert H. Woods, 
born Providence, R. L, July 18, 1888; Virginia Woods, 
born Providence, R. L, April 5, 1890; Isabel, born Provi- 
dence, R. L, January 24, 1892; Frances Churchill Woods, 
Upland, June 13, 1902. 

He writes: " I think the present high tariff an outrageous 
imposition on people not stockholders in our 'Infant In- 
dustries.' The present good times commercially, are the 
hardest times on those of moderate means, that the country 
has experienced in twenty-five years, excepting the years 
1893-1895. Prices advancing 30-40 per cent, while wages 
increase barely 10 per cent, leave the majority of our people 
decidedly worse off. The conquest of our new possessions 
as the termination of a war to free our fellow men, is a 
record of deceit and rascality for which this country will 
probably have to pay dearly some day. As Walpole said 
on the occasion of an English blunder, * You may ring 
your bells now; before long, you will be wringing your 

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hands.' I am Independent in politics, opposed especially 
to McKinleyism and Bryanism. The old Democratic 
Party commands my greatest sympathy. I am a Baptist 




REV. FRANK C. WOODS 



in religious faith, and have been in the ministry sixteen 
years." 

" I have written considerable for the religious press, news- 
papers and magazines, contributed articles and editorials. 
I have written no book, but assisted in producing one. 
Degrees received since leaving college: B. D. Crozier 
Theological Seminary, 1888; Ph. M. (Master Theology) 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Crozier Theological Seminary, igo2. The seminary has 
conferred this degree on but two of her graduates. 

" Finney as a poet, is making Tennyson and Browning 
restless to the disturbance of the sod. 

"The present compact plays in football make the game 
not comparably as interesting to watch as was the former 
open game." 

ROBERT STERLING YARD 

Several years ago, after a service of some years on the 
staff of the New York Herald, in various editorial positions, 
I left newspaper work, permanently, for publishing. After 
a year with R. H. Russell, as his business manager and 
adviser, I accepted an offer from Charles Scribner's Sons, 
New York City, where, for four years, I was editor of The 
Lamp, the literary review of the house, and, also, the man- 
ager of the book advertising. I then formed, with W. D. 
Moffat, '84, the pubhshing house of Moffat, Yard & Com- 
pany, 289 Fourth Avenue, New York City. 

In June, 1895, 1 married Mary Belle Moffat, of Princeton, 
and am now living at 41 Douglass Road, Glen Ridge, N. 
J. We have one child living, Margaret Moffat Yard, three 
years old, and a hustler. 

The years since we parted have been, for me, full of 
earnest work. Little, in fact, has happened to me apart 
from my work, except a three months trip abroad with my 
wife, and even that was at the summons of James Gordon 
Bennett, my then employer. As a reporter, first for the 
New York Sun, and afterward for the New York Herald, 
I "covered" everything, big and little, in the gamut of 

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ROBERT STERLING YARD 



reportorial effort, except a National Political Convention. 
I "did" the World's Fair at Chicago, the great mine 
squeeze at Wilkes Barre, the Breckenridge-PoUard trial at 
Washington, the first electrocution at Sing Sing, the big street 
car strike in Brooklyn, the Corbett-Mitchell fight at Jackson- 
ville. So much for kind and variety; now^ fill in the in- 
tervening years with an uninterrupted sequence of "scare- 
heads," murders, mysteries of various kinds, football games, 
bank failures, naval and military spectacles, defalcations, 
etc., etc., etc., and you have my life for some years. No 
one in Park Row had a more varied "run of assignments" 

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than I, especially during my last two or three years of 
reporting. I once had twelve columns of solid type in a 
single Sunday Smi, and the day following Princeton's 
football victory over Yale in '93, I had five and three- 
quarter solid columns of it in the Herald, — all written (and 




CHARLES IRA YOUNG 



dictated) after seven o'clock, and without stopping for 
dinner. But I shall always regret not having had a whack 
at a National Convention. 

As an editor I covered at different times most of the day 
desks on the Herald, and during my eighteen months as 
Sunday Editor the cnxulation nearly doubled. I left news- 

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paper work, after eleven years of it, from mixed motives 
making for general betterment, but chiefly under the whip 
of certain ideals, which, I began to see, could not, in that 
environment, be really maintained at my level. 

I have, in shoit, met life at close quarters — and found it 
good. It has been a struggle, the result often in doubt, 
but I am winning out, as every thorough-going optimist 
will. I have not banked such beautiful financial rewards 
as many of us have, if report be happily true, but life has 
other assets also, and of these I have my share. Moreover, 
the returns are not all in yet. 

CHARLES IRA YOUNG 

Charley is an engineer with the Westinghouse Electric 
& Mfg. Co., at II Pine Street, New York City, lives at 
265 West 8ist Street. He is unmarried, and says he has 
"no cause for complaint" with his success. 



EX-MEMBERS 



JOHN BARCLAY 

Although Barclay did not graduate with his class, there 
has been no more loyal ex-member than he, and we 
were all glad to greet him at our Twentieth Reunion. 
He proved to us that he had not forgotten how to play base 
ball, for he caught in the '83-'88 game as though he were 
still in college. It was a pleasure to see his wife and young 
junior with him at the Re-union. He has been and is a 
successful banker at Greenburg, being the president of his 
Bank and Trust Company, and retains a loyal affection for 
and interest in all the best work of the class, and Princeton. 

He was married to Miss Coulter, April 3, 1897, and his 
son, John Barclay, Jr., was born June 12, 1900. His 
father hopes to enter him in the class of 1921. 

THEODORE LEDYARD CUYLER 

Although Cuyler never entered the Class, yet he was with 
us on that strenuous occasion in June, 1879, when so many 
of us went up to the old town to pass our entrance examina- 
tions. The claims of a business career opened before him 
just at that time, and he responded to them, and hence 
never took a college course with us, but he has always 
shown a loyal interest in the old college, and especially in 
the Class of '83, and at our recent Reunion, in response 
to an invitation sent him, manifested his generous interest 

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hy a check toward the Class Fund. He has ahvays been 
found on our side of the field at the Yale games and many 
other games, and he has an exceedingly bright and promis- 
ing junior, whom he hopes to enter Princeton in due time. 
Cuyler is the successful Secretary of the Postal Telegraph 
Co., at 253 Broadway. Every true Princeton son rejoices 
in the fame and lustre which his honored father, Rev. Dr. 
Theo. L. Cuyler, of Brooklyn, has always brought Princeton. 
We assure him of a warm welcome whenever and wherever 
'83 gathers. 

GUSTAVUS C. DARLINGTON 

We have seen or heard little of Darlington since he left 
college, but since he is in New York, we hope the class will 
see more of him as the years go on. 

He is practicing medicine at the above address with 
"fair success," as he modestly puts it. 

In 1885, he was married in Brooklyn to Miss Kate B. 
Beams, and she died in 1898. There are two children, 
Marguerite B. and Charles G., and the latter hopes to 
enter Princeton. 

Darlington came on for the Yale game in June, but 
could not remain for the entire Reunion. He will be glad 
to see any of his old class when in New York. 

WILLIAM HENRY GULICK 

All of us recall the earnest and studious "scientif" of 
college days, and we are glad to note that he is a successful 
engineer and contractor. His business address is the 
Colonial Theatre Building in Phoenixville, Pa. 

In 1893, on February 8, Gulick was married to Miss 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Carry Elizabeth Dismant. One child, Helen Gulick. 
Gulick says he is a Democrat, and in religion "tends 
toward the Protestant Episcopal Church." He has 




WILLIAM H. GULICK 



travelled considerably throughout the United States and 
the English possessions. 

Gulick is always loyal to the Class, and we hope to see 
him at future Reunions. 

NORWOOD ELLIOTT MITCHELL 

Mitchell writes from Sheldon, North Dakota, and tells 
U3 that he is a contractor with fair success; has never 

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■ PERSONAL BIOGRAPHIES OF '83 

married. He believes in the moderate protective tariff, 
"The Iowa Idee," "being about w^hat I consider the happy 
medium." He beheves that our new^ possessions should 
be retained, and as they develop fitness, should be given 
full territorial free government, and finally be erected into 
states. "I am a Republican, but think there are good 
points in both parties. My religious opinions, or rather my 
opinions on religion, are Ingersolian. (This may shockyou)." 
Mitchell has travelled East and West and into Southern 
California. He "talks up" Princeton whenever the op- 
portunity offers. He does not belong to any alumni asso- 
ciation, but is loyal to the Orange and Black. We hope 
Mitchell will boom Princeton wherever in the far West 
he may journey. 

CHARLES PATTEN RICHARDSON 
Few men took a greater interest in the recent Class Re- 
union, or travelled farther to get there, than did Richard- 
son. He was on hand at the beginning, and stayed till 
the last gun fired. He was cordial and generous in all 
the requirements of the Class Reunion, and proved be- 
yond question his loyalty to the Class spirit. 

His home address is 4109 St. Charles Avenue, New 
Orleans, La., and his business as a cotton planter is at 
316 Baronne Street. He reports that he is making "satis- 
factory progress." He is not married, but is very much of 
a club man, being a member of various yachting, social, 
and fishing clubs of New Orleans. 

His travels have been limited except between New York 
and New Orleans on business matters. He regrets that he 
has not been more loyal in influencing fellows to enter 

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CHARLES P. RICHARDSON 



Princeton, but promises to do better in the future. He has 
extended to more than one '83 man a loyal and royal 
welcome at his home in New Orleans. 



SAMUEL MOOR SHOEMAKER 

In college days there was a strong, quiet, sturdy student 
whose friendships were limited, but who was finely true 
to those he made, who as a "scientif" plodded along and 
prepared himself for the life of a gentleman farmer in 
Maryland. He writes that he is a dairyman, "with hopes," 

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and his farm is at Stevenson, Maryland, while his home 
is at 4 South Street, Baltimore. 

Sam was married in November, 1884, to Miss Ellen 
Ward Whitridge, of Baltimore. They have two children, 
Ellen Whitridge, born in February, 1886, at Baltimore, 
and Samuel Moor, Jr., born in December, 1893, at Balti- 
more, "probably the class of 19 14." 

Sam says of himself, "I am a Democrat and an Episco- 
palian, although I am told that a man in the milk business 
has no business with either patriotism or religion." 

Sam regretted exceedingly his inability to be at the Re- 
union. The Class Secretary knows by delightful expe- 
rience what a warm hospitality awaits '83 men who will 
visit Shoemaker. 

SAMUEL D. WILCOX 

Wilcox has not replied to our questions, but was inter- 
ested enough in the Reunion to be present at the Yale 
game, and his son marched with the '83 " Kids "to the game. 

It is a long time since Wilcox has broken the silence, and 
for the first time we learn that he is living in New York. 
He is with the firm of T. W. & C. B. Sheridan, at 56 
Duane Street, corner of Elm, New York City. We hope 
in future he will keep in closer touch with the Class, 

JOHN MACLEAN ZAPF 

Zapf has remained a citizen of Princeton ever since the 
Class left those classic shades, and usually appears at all 
Reunions. He is not married, and is leading a quiet 
business life at 24 Dickinson Street, Princeton. 

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THE 

TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

REUNION 

By Edward Huntting Rudd, Secretary 

THE class began to gather Saturday morning, 
June 6, 1903, at a large double house, 15 Dick- 
inson Street — a picture of which appears else- 
where in this Record — and during the day many 
new arrivals were noted of men evidently ready for 
the " time of their lives." A large and commo- 
dious house had been secured by the Committee, with 
parlor and dining rooms on the first floor, with ample 
bedroom accommodations on the second and third floors — 
at a house opposite — so that every man should have a 
hearty welcome and a place to sleep. A large tent had 
been erected in the yard, where all informal and formal 
gatherings were held, and where the class supper was 
celebrated Tuesday evening, June 9th. Soon after lunch- 
eon Saturday, the class formed in line, over 40 strong, 
for the annual "Peerade" to the Yale game. We were led 
by the Naval Reserve Band, of Trenton, of twenty pieces. 
The class was honored with the presence of the following 
83 "Kids:" William Thayer Field, aged 9; Wilham P. 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Finney, Jr., aged 14; George S. Howell, aged 14; William 
Paxton Roberts, aged 11; and Frank C. Roberts, Jr., aged 
9; Harold and Waldo Ward, our class twins, aged 14; and 
Sam Wilcox's boy. 

Of course, it was the presence of '83 that won the game. 
In any event, Yale was vanquished, and the championship 
stayed in Princeton another year. 

After the game the class marched back to Headquarters, 
and many were the old friendships renewed, as late into 
the night the class occupied the tent, and were found in 
the "best of spirits." 

On Sunday there was nothing of special interest, many 
members of the class visiting together, or enjoying college 
chapel, or re-visiting the scenes of earlier days on the old 
campus. 

On the early train of Monday, more men who could 
not be there at the game began to arrive, and at 10.30 the 
class marched over to the base ball ground back of Brokaw 
Memorial, where a formal base ball game was played with 
the class of '88, the full score of which will be found on an- 
other page. The pitching of Wadleigh, the old-time play- 
ing of "Andy" Wilson and Bennie Mitchel, the sharp field- 
ing of Roberts, Baker, and "Ritchie," with the sensational 
runs of Richmond, Rutan, Rudd, and Baker, and the 
"gentle" three-base hit and "grand-stand catch" of Rudd, 
demonstrated to the enthusiastic on-lookers that the class 
hadn't forgotten its college day enjoyment at least of base 
ball, and we vanquished the class of '88 by the score of 11 
to 6. We were honored by the presence of Mr. Robert E. 
Bonner, of '76, as umpire, while "Yancy" Brattan acted 
as scorer. The game was interrupted by an untimely 



TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY REUNION 

thunder shower, but not until great sport had been had, and 
not a little "horse play." Professor Chas. A. Young was 
among our loyal "rooters." 

On Monday afternoon the class attended some of the 
class-day exercises on the Campus, scattering as they 
pleased, to attend various social and academic functions. 
About 4 o'clock the class accepted the hospitality of Mr. 
and Mrs. Frank C. Roberts, to be their guests at a lawn 
party at the home of Mrs. Roberts's father, the Rev. Dr. 
William M. Paxton. Every moment here was thoroughly 
enjoyed, for we met many of our old professors and friends 
of college days now living in Princeton and elsewhere. 
Before leaving, a very satisfactory group was taken on the 
front steps by Rose, copies of which may also be had from 
him on application. In the evening we visited the Head- 
quarters of '88 and other classes that were holding Re- 
unions at that time, and everywhere the class was received 
with unmistakable cordiality. Another occasion of marked 
interest was held on that same evening, when the Sec- 
retaries of all the various classes of Princeton, held their 
first official meeting for formal organization, at the Prince- 
ton Inn, and the class was represented by its Secretary, 
Rudd, who responded to the first toast of the evening. 

This union of all class Secretaries promises great things 
for future service to Princeton, and to each individual 
class. On returning to the class headquarters, an "ex- 
perience meeting" was held, and most of the class re- 
sponded, telling what they had been doing since we last 
gathered. 

Tuesday, like all the other days, was a beautifully clear, 
mild, June day, and the class repaired to the steps of Old 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

North, where the photographer, Rose, took the class 
group, which proved aftei'ward to be most satisfactory, 
and copies may be obtained on appHcation to Mr. Rose, 
the Princeton photographer. Agnew broke by accident 
the plates which he took. 

The class then joined the Alumni parade, and went to 
the annual Alumni dinner, served for the first time in the 
magnificent new gymnasium, over 600 of the Alumni being 
in attendance. Rudd was called on to say grace, and the 
class was represented among the Alumni addresses by 
William Church Osborn, who gave one of the very best 
addresses of the day, and the class was proud of their 
representative. President Wilson announced that the class 
had contributed ^2,000 to endow two prizes in English 
Literature in the School of Science, these being the first 
prizes in that Department ever offered to the School of 
Science and a worthy continuation of the practical gifts al- 
ready made to the University by our Class. 

On Tuesday evening came the event of the Re-union, 
when the class sat down to its Twentieth Anniversary 
Dinner in the tent. The Dinner was a most delicious one, 
and tastefully and well served, again reflecting great credit 
on the Committee. After the coffee, Laurie Riggs, acting 
as toastmaster, kept the class in good humor and peals of 
laughter by his clever hits and introductions, and many 
toasts were responded to. The class songs and the special 
one written by Richmond and sung to the tune of "Mr. 
Dooley" always brought down the house. It is printed 
elsewhere. Indeed, Richmond's musical talent was never 
more in evidence and so keenly appreciated as during this 
entire Re-union. 

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Letters of regret were received from our beloved Class 
President Crouse, and the following telegram was ordered 
sent to him: 

"Otto Crouse, 
Monticello, N. Y. 

Here's to you, sir, forty-six of your classmates deeply 
regret your absence and send their affectionate greetings 
and wishes. 

Roberts 1 

(Signed) Keller V Committee." 

Richmond J 

And the following reply was read by Riggs: 

"Henry G. Bryant, 
'83 Headquarters, 
Princeton. 
Great disappointment not to take part in the roast to- 
night. Will cheer and sing Richmond's song about greet- 
ings to '83. Handshake and 'God bless you' to every man. 

Otto Crouse." 

Letters were also read from ex-Attorney-General Har- 
lan, from San Juan, Porto Rico, and from Frank E. Hoskins, 
Beirut, Syria, from C. S, Day, Chicago, and from T. L. 
Cuyler, Brooklyn. 

Among the toasts responded to was that of The Law, 
by Jack Hodge, by Dan Fell on the Experiences of a Dis- 
trict Attorney, by Jerry Haxall on the Class in Baltimore 
Life, by Ned Royle on the Actor and His Profession, by 
Petty on the Distinguishing Feature of Fell's Speech, and 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

by numerous other men of the class on unassigned topics. 
A hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Harry Bryant for 
the success of the Re-union. The Class Secretary, Rudd, 
presented the facts and statements as Secretary, and then 
followed the election of officers, and the following men 
were elected: For President, Otto Grouse; Vice-President, 
Frank C. Roberts; Secretary, Edward Huntting Rudd; 
Treasurer, Frank C. Roberts; "Poet Laureate" and Chap- 
lain, Charles A. Richmond. Executive Committee, i. e., 
Class officers with the Reunion Committee. 

In the midst of a heart-felt silence. Chairman Riggs read 
the list of those of the class who had died since we left 
college, and a silent toast was drunk to their memory. 
The beautiful and appropriate verses on page xvii were 
read by their author, Charles Alex. Richmond. 

Since our last Reunion we have lost by death Merry- 
weather, Fleming, Way, Shelby, Antrim, Dickinson, Baldwin, 
and Hunter St. John. 

During the Re-union a call was received from the Li- 
brarian of the College, Dr. E. C. Richardson, who made 
a statement to the class concerning the Alcove of Political 
Economy, and thanked the class for the value of the gift 
to the University, and explained certain matters in con- 
nection with it. 

Several rounds of hearty cheers were given for Alma 
Mater, for the Class officers elected, for the Class, and for 
various absentees, and the class supper of the Twentieth 
Anniversary was over, and voted by every one to have been 
the most successful dinner the class ever held. Many 
promised to return each year to meet as many as were able 
to be present. 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

The following men registered at Headquarters, and were 
present one or more days during the Re-union: 



Agnew 


Karner 


Rutan 


Baker 


Keller 


Spier 


Barclay 


Libbey 


Taber 


Brattan 


B. W. Mitchell 


Taylor 


Bryant 


Morgan 


Towle 


Carter 


Osborn 


Updike 


Conover 


Park 


VulchefF 


Darlington 


Parmly 


Wadleigh 


Duane 


Perrine 


Ward 


Fell 


Petty 


Wilcox 


Field 


Phillips 


C. G. Wilson 


Finney 


Richardson 


A. W. Wilson 


Fisher 


Richmond 


Woods 


Gilmore 


Riggs 


Yard 


Haxall 


Roberts. 


Young 


Hewitt 


S. K. Royle 


Zapf 


Hodge 


E. M. Royle 




Howell 


Rudd 




and a few others 


who did not register 


, making fifty-five 


in all. 







OUR LAWYERS 



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OUR LAWYERS 

By John Aspinwall Hodge, Jr. 

BILLY OSBORN, with characteristic persistency^ 
has insisted that I reproduce as far as I can the 
remarks which I made at the class dinner in re- 
sponse to the toast of " '83 at the Bar." After a lapse of 
nine months such a task is difficult, if not impossible of 
accomplishment, but I will do my best and shall at least 
succeed as well as Dan Fell would if a like demand was 
made upon him. 

Almost one-third of our class are lawyers or have studied 
law with that profession in view. While it is impossible 
to give an account of the career of each of the thirty-odd, 
we can attempt it by taking up our class roll in its alpha- 
betical order. 

Alexander, was first with Alexander & Green and 
afterwards in Paris in charge of an office affiliated with them, 
and then by himself, and in partnership, and for some years 
counsel of the United States Legation. Henry attained 
the degree of success which his energy and activity gave 
promise of. I saw something of him at the beginning of 
his career in New York, but for many years we all lost sight 
of him except as he was seen by European stragglers of 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

the class in Paris. I have seen him lately, the picture of 
health and energy, pluck and promise. 

Antrim, practiced law at Bordentown after his admis- 
sion to the New Jersey bar in 1888. Buck took an active 
interest in politics and was held in high esteem by the people 
of Burlington County, by whom he was given more than 




HENRY A. ALEXANDER 



one position of trust and confidence. His untimely death 
was mourned by a host of friends. 

Archer, another good Democrat, practices in Mary- 
land, and gave a good account of himself at the re-union. 

Baldwin, practiced successfully in Florida, where he 

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was first Mayor of Palatka County, and then County 
Probate Judge for four years, and thus added honors to 
the class. Joe afterwards came north and died in Con- 
necticut last year. 

BoRGMEYER is not only a lawyer, but has been editor 
of the ISfetu 'Jersey Law Journal, and author and editor of 
law books including a corporation manual containing a 
compilation of the corporation laws of all the states. He 
has been a member of the firm of A. Q. Keasbey & Sons, 
of Newark, and has been the organizer of a fifty million 
dollar corporation with a paid up capital of 1^15,000. I 
had the pleasure of reading t-o the class extracts from a 
biographical article contained in a paper called Town 
Talk, which details his college experience, and from which 
I quote: 

"Unlike some of the collegians of the present day, Mr. 
Borgmeyer didn't go frantic over football, etc. He, how- 
ever, gave enough attention to sports to thoroughly develop 
the muscles of his body, but at the same time he never lost 
sight of the fact that he went to college to study. . . . He 
graduated from college with high honors. It is said of his 
work {The American Corporation Legal Manual) by those 
who ought to know, that no law library is complete with- 
out it. As might be supposed, the conductor of such a 
work requires not only a thorough knowledge of the sub- 
ject, but also fine literary ability. Mr. Borgmeyer has 
displayed both in his production That young law- 
yer Borgmeyer often surprised the more experienced counsel 

who have been opposed to him Besides being the 

attorney of the Traction Company in Essex County, Mr. 
Borgmeyer represents the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER] 

Company in New Jersey, and it isn't the fault of other big 
corporations that he isn't their counsel too. As for his 
personal appearance, Mr. Borgmeyer is a good-looking 
man. He has the form and it is said the strength and 
ability of a trained athlete. He has a rosy complexion, 
black hair and mustache, fine teeth, broad forehead, bright 
brown eyes and a face that denotes intelligence and kind- 
ness. In society he is what might be called a 'social lion.' 
. . . Mr. Borgmeyer lives in Bayonne." 

To the above, I can add nothing. 

Bryant (I. E.) Intrepid Explorer. Tape's accom- 
plishments are known to every member of the class, and 
to everybody interested in geographical exploration the 
world around, and in his quiet way he is a good lawyer 
as well. There is no need of my sounding praises of one 
whom we all know and love so well. 

Crouse, our learned president and valedictorian, a judge 
as well as a lawyer, is one whose career is familiar to every 
member of the class, and whose ability, pluck, perseverance, 
kindness and deserved popularity is as well known as his 
success in his profession. As I dictate this I have gladden- 
ing news from him scarcely 24 hours old from Tucson, 
Arizona, to the effect that he is recovering his health so 
seriously in jeopardy during the last two years, and is pro- 
nounced a well man by his physicians. Within the next 
six months he hopes to be at his desk and in the courts 
where he will always be a shining light. 

Davis. I have seen several times on his trips to the 
East from his home in the West. He is as painstaking, care- 
ful as a lawyer as he was in college as a student. He has 
attained the success that we all know he deserves and is 

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held in high esteem by the bar and the bench in MinneapoHs. 
He has written a number of articles on legal, social and 
political subjects. He is now practicing in Santa Anna, 
California. 

Fell of Wilkesbarre, has made a name and fame for 
himself even aside from his speech at our dinner which 
marked the climax of his career. He was District Attorney 
in the most troublesome times and in the most dijfficult 
situation which it has been the lot of any of our class to 
occupy. During the terrible scenes of the strike in Wilkes- 
barre with murder, rapine and arson attracting the atten- 
tion of the whole country, Dan stood by the guns and 
covered himself with glory, maintaining the majesty of the 
law. He has displayed the grandest qualities of the law- 
yer — caution, coolness and courage. I can add nothing to 
what he himself said of himself on the occasion when we 
were all last together. 

Fisher, noble scion of a noble father, is filling his place 
in the metropolis of Maryland and proving himself an able 
jurist, respected and honored by that large and influential 
community. 

Harlan is now the Honorable Harlan, Ex-Attorney 
General of Porto Rico. The honor of that position I 
happen to know was forced upon him much against his 
will, and after several declinations of it he undertook his 
exile to Porto Rico (for it was that to him) under the promise 
that he would not be asked to remain more than one year 
from his practice in Chicago. The task of the revision as 
well as the execution of the mixed law of the old and new 
regime fell to his lot. He stood by his post for two years. 
The country all knows how he acquitted himself, and I 

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need not tell the class. The regret we felt at his not being 
present at our re-union was mutual. It makes no difference 
whether Jim remains at the bar or removes to the bench 
where he belongs, his career is assured and he ranks with 
the leaders of the Chicago bar. For many years with the 
firm of which the present Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court of the United States was the head, he has since his 
return from Porto Rico formed a partnership with his 
brother John, who is now the Republican nominee for the 
Mayoralty of Chicago. 

Hodge. In responding to the toast " '83 on the Stage" 
Ed. Royle had the supreme pleasure of being able to talk 
of nobody but himself. This is denied me in responding 
to my toast. In the record at our decennial. Bob Spier 
wrote, "Hodge is the most modest man in this vicinity. 
Rumor has it, however, that he has never lost a case where 
less than ^50,000 was involved." Whether this was true 
in 1893 deponent saith not, but I have, since, as most of the 
class know. I am modest enough, however, to add, that 
I think my lost cause was not lost through fault of mine, 
and I trust that it was a moral victory if a technical defeat. 

I am practicing law in New York and enjoy my profes- 
sion. One of the greatest pleasures in it has been the 
association in a number of cases with other members of 
the class, notably Harlan, Fisher, Fell and Crouse, the last 
during the past week winning a cause for me in the Jersey 
courts which was an outgrowth of the United States Steel 
suit, and in which I was the defendant. 

Keller. John is industriously pursuing his profession 
in Jersey City with the same loyalty and attachment to 
it that he evinces towards the class and the college; the 

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same careful, methodical and thorough habit of mind which 
served him so well in college has made him the lawyer he is. 

OsBORN. Billy for a number of years has been a mem- 
ber of one of the leading firms In New York. He has 
served his state as well as the profession in the capacity of 
Commissioner of Lunacy, having in charge tens of thou- 
sands of the unfortunate, and has given of his time, strength 
and ability gratuitously in a work which was both 
patriotic and philanthropic. He has been in politics and 
is bound, if the clean and conservative element of the 
Democratic party secures control, to be yet a great deal 
deeper in, than he has been, and to attain in the service of the 
state a very high position, if I am any prophet. Watch 
him. 

Petty. We all know what Petty has done. Able and 
successful at the bar, pre-eminent as a teacher in the largest 
law school in New York city, he is also one of the most 
efficient campaign orators which the state possesses. His 
ability to capture an audience of any character, composed 
of any sort of men, is masterly and is recognized generally. 
He is another member of the class who can have political 
position without question, if he seeks it. What he did for 
our class by way of campaigning and speech-making at 
our re-union, is only typical of what he can do, on a much 
larger scale in a wider field of politics. 

Phillips, our Philadelphia friend and classmate takes 
a pessimistic view of the lawyer in politics, based upon his 
own experience. From what he has told us and from what 
I have heard from others, Phillips was truly successful in 
his attempt to invade this field of usefulness and that he did 
not attain office was not his fault, but rather that of the 

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vicious and unfortunate condition of Philadelphia politics. 
Preferment according to Civil Service rules, rewards to the 
worthy and success to those who deserve it are not proposi- 
tions which rule in either party in the city of Brotherly 
Love; so I understand that Phillips is devoting himself more 
entirely to his profession and with better results. 

RiEMAN. Perlee was one of the charming men of our 
class. As we all remember him as he was in college days, 
we feel all the sadder that he has experienced ill health 
and misfortune. He is to be included among our lawyers, 
for although I am not sure that he ever entered the bar, 
for several years he pursued the study of the law in Balti- 
more, afterwards going into the electrical business. 

RiGGS. Laurie is a lawyer. But my investigations 
among his associates in Baltimore led me to state to the 
class at the re-union that he was one-third lawyer, one- 
third banker, and one-third philanthropist, a proposition 
which I don't think he has denied. Did he live in New 
York and had he an office in Wall Street I should have 
suspicions as to his intent in thus making a triumvirate of 
himself. For a banker who is also a lawyer and a philan- 
thropist would be suspected in this latitude of an intent 
to enter the field of "high finance" (a term not new but 
older than Balzac, who defines it in modern phrase). In 
that field a banker who could defend himself and his 
practices by consulting with the one third-lawyer part of 
himself and at the same time could find an outlet for the 
gains thus legally begotten by negotiating with the other and 
philanthropic one-third of himself, would be a pre-eminently 
useful member of the community and an automatic work- 
ing machine of the highest possible utility, according to 

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modern ideas. But we acquit Laurie of any such intent, 
and repudiate any such suspicion on our part. I have 
been accused by several members of the class, of not re- 
cognizing the military attainments of our professional 
brother. As a son of Mars, like Royle on the stage, he 
stands alone, the only general or star among our class- 
mates. 

RuTAN. I don't know whether Rutan has carried out 
a recently formed intention, ceased to be a clergyman and 
has become a lawyer. All hail to him if he has. Surely, 
however, we need men in both the pulpit and at the bar 
who will make justice and courage the watchwords in these 
times. [Note. — Rutan still preaches at Wrentham, Mass.] 

Shanklin, successful at the Chicago bar and attracted 
towards the real estate side of his profession, has devoted 
himself largely to that business. We missed him at the 
re-union. 

Shelby, our earnest and enthusiastic classmate prac- 
ticed in Lexington, Ky., for four years, and afterwards en- 
tered into the educational field and became an instructor, 
but has since passed away. 

Taber has been as devoted to his foster parent Chicago, 
as he was representative of his native New York. Popular 
and successful, careful, painstaking and efficient, he is the 
same Sydney that he was in college as he proved by his 
charming presence, and association with us during the days 
of our re-union in June. I have had the pleasure of read- 
ing some of his briefs, particularly one in the Supreme 
Court of the United States. His literary ability has ap- 
parently stood him in good stead in his profession. 

Trainer is a member of the Ohio bar and for lack of 

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facts and information concerning him I can only express 
the belief, in which I believe all of the class will join me, 
that he has made a good lawyer, energetic and enthusiastic. 

Welsh, we all remember Dominie, and those who 
knew him well knew that he was one of the ablest men in 
the class, having peculiarly gifted mind, incisive, and an- 
alytical. I have not heard from him for a number of years, 
but whatever he has done in his profession we all know 
has been well done. 

Whitlock has practiced successfully in Chester, South 
Carolina. 

In closing I feel sure that while I have mentioned almost 
every member of the class who is a member of the bar, 
there may be two or three whom I have overlooked. To 
them I offer my apologies as well as to the class, and plead 
as the excuse the silence of those who have been omitted 
and their non-attendance at our re-union as well as the 
difficulty that I have experienced in reconstructing what I 
was able to say in June. The notes and memoranda which 
I then had before me, furnished through the kindness of our 
Secretary, I am now without. 

One thing I think is to be remarked in connection with 
the career of our members in the profession, and that is, 
that our close intimacy at college would have led most 
of us to prognosticate and prophesy the career in general, 
if not in detail, of each of those who have gone into the law. 



i=;2 



THE MINISTRY 



THE MINISTRY OF '83 

By Charles Alex Richmond 

I HAVE been asked to digest the Ministry of the class 
of '83. I have neither the time, nor strictly speaking, 
the constitution. However, encouraged by the Apostle 
Paul's suggestion (see Col. iii-12) I vs^ill take my med- 
icine. In the first place — we. are all alive, an even score of us 
— we have all married — some of us twice ; all but two have 
children, forty-six or more in all. As Uncle Remus says: 
"A fool for luck and a pore man for children." We are 
all busy at one thing or another. We have one Foreign 
missionary, three Home missionaries and two theological 
professors. Nine are pastors of churches, two are in 
educational work, two are in business, and Pard Harsha 
— where is he ? 

To begin with Hoskins. Finney in his Oriental journey 
in 1900, fell in with Frank. He says: "At Beirut, Syria, 
I had the great pleasure of seeing Frank Hoskins and some- 
thing of the noble work he is doing to redeem that land. 
So far as I am aware, no son of '83 is doing a work so far- 
reaching or so uplifting to so large a section of humanity 
as this same Frank Hoskins of ours." J'ai is right. The 
place of honor where all are honorable, belongs to Frank — 

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and yet — there is our patriarch, George Edwards. For six- 
teen years he has covered a county in Montana as large as 
New Jersey with his labors. George has literally stuck to his 
mutton. His wife owns a sheep ranch and three boys, and 
George with rare wisdom allows her to control her own flock. 

His nearest neighbor is Evan Landis, who roams about 
the plains of Indian Territory some thousand miles away. 
Evan fills a man's place in the world, and takes his hard- 
ships uncomplainingly as part of the day's work, 

Claude. Brodhead's career appeals to me. Not content 
with the task of trying to inject religion into the Penn- 
sylvania Dutch — or perhaps seeking more yielding soil — 
he has gone to New Mexico to the Navajo Indians. They 
call him "Hosteen Domingo Mr. Sunday Man" one of 
the proudest titles in the class. Those Indians will live to 
thank God for sending them such a big-hearted Christian 
gentleman for a friend. Our missionaries have gone to 
their work quite naturally. No heroics, but plain everyday 
heroism in jeans it seems to us, with our easier tasks in the 
East. There are nine of us preachers with churches more 
or less important. Thomas K. Beecher once said to me: 
"The man who expects to accomplish anything by preach- 
ing is deficient in intellect," and yet we go on preaching. 

Frank Woods, our one soft-shell Baptist with a heart as 
sound as a nut and a conscience void of offense, finds a 
congenial home at Moorestown, N. J., where he has just 
been called to the pulpit of the Baptist Church. He has 
succeeded as he deserves to succeed, and wears his blush- 
ing honors thick upon him. 

Finney, genial and gentle, has been in Moorestown, 
N. J., for eleven years. He is generally beloved, blossoms 

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into poetry now and then, verse like himself, modest and 
sweet. His best production is his boy, fourteen years old 
and ready for Princeton. J'ai's grandfather was just such 
a prodigy, and then it skipped two generations. Mendels- 
sohn used to complain because when he was a boy he was 
known as the son of Mendelssohn the philosopher, and 
when he became a man, he was known as the father of 
Mendelssohn the composer. I can see "J'ai's" place in 
history, the grandson of his grandfather and the father 
of his son. 

We all know where Rudd is at Dedham, just out of Boston, 
and what he is doing: preaching, teaching, lecturing, agitat- 
ing. Ed leads a very busy life, and has been chosen to many 
positions of honor and trust in New England Congregational- 
ism. His heart is in the right place, and we all wish him 
Godspeed. 

Paden says he "wants to be tied with a long rope." 
Ecclesiastical trammels are not for him. Home missionary 
for awhile, in a fit of abstraction he wandered off in the wake 
of the Salvation Army. He is settled, a married man now, 
in Allegheny, Pa. Ross ought to have all the rope he wants, 
he would stand without any hitching at all. 

Fred. Rutan has done well. Preaching at Menands, near 
Albany, for some years, and while there he studied law and 
was admitted, earned a Ph. D. and now has a good church 
at Wrentham, Mass. 

Jim Russell went from Horseheads, N. Y. fa good place 
to go from by the way) to Camden, N. J., and back again 
to Oneonta, N. Y., where his lovely pink cheeks and his 
downright goodness and worth are winning him success. 
Jim has a D.D. from a college in North Carolina. 

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TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Evans is in West Hoboken, N. J., where he is doing good 
work in no insignificant way. 

Have we forgotten Cupid Parmly ? Cupid blossomed 
late. It took him eleven years to find himself. But he has 
composed that seductive smile of his to a becoming gravity, 
and is now pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Atlantic 
Highlands, N. J. Everybody believes in Cupid. He rings 
true, and his life is counting for good. 

George Gilmore is a Theological Professor in Meadville, 
Pa. He has a boy born in Seoul, Korea, distinction enough 
in these days. George and Henry Landis are the only 
two ministers in the class who could pass a Freshman 
Examination in Greek and Latin. Henry is writing books 
and teaching and lecturing in Tokio, Japan. He is a 
scholar of notable influence in the island. He is one of our 
intellectual heavy-weights and his work bids fair to out- 
last that of some of the rest of us. 

VulchefF is busy with manuscripts and examination 
papers in the Regents' oflfice at Albany, N. Y. Updike is 
in the real estate business in Trenton, N. J., a living illus- 
tration of the truth of the Beatitude, " Blessed are the 
meek, for they shall inherit the earth." 

Annin is teaching at Rolla, Missouri, and doing well. 

Duck Karner after thirteen years service in Albany — 
good service too — went into business at Plainfield, N. J. 
He has lately been on a tour of inspection to Honduras, 
in the interest of a Banana Plantation Co. He says there 
are no bugs in Honduras: no winds, no frosts, no taxes, 
no strikes — only bananas "in posse," all you have to do 
there is to think banana, and at once you have a banana 
tree loaded with ripe bunches. On his way home. Duck 

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stopped at New Orleans to take a drink with Richardson. 
After the drink, Duck wrote all this about Honduras, 
those of us who were at the Re-union last June know very 
well that anybody who drinks with Richardson is sure to 
see something unusual. 

I am here in Alban}/^ where I have been nearly ten years, 
and so our roster ends. James Russell Lowell once said — 
not wisely — "The minister has degenerated into a mere 
figurehead at weddings and funerals." We think of the men 
we know in our own class. Edwards, steady as an old eight- 
day clock, travelling his 18,000 miles a year up and down his 
Montana parish. Evan Landis in Indian Territory. Mr. 
Sunday Man among the Navajos (Brodhead), minister- 
ing to the sick, the poor, the ignorant, taking the children 
in his arms, sitting at the bedside of the dying, sayirg 
the last words over the dead, telling the story of Jesus of 
Nazareth and like Him going about doing good. We think 
of Frank Hoskins far off in Syria, and Henry Landis in 
Japan. We think of the dozen simple, earnest, true men, 
poor enough, most of them, in this world's goods, but en- 
riching other men's lives by their own sacrifices — doing 
their work as the best men always do — seeking no reward. 
And when we think of all this, I am sure '83 will feel that 
Lowell ought to take that back. These men are no figure- 
heads. The world is richer and stronger and happier 
for the ministers of '83. 

We have not set the world on fire, but taking us through 
and through, I think we can say the ministers are a credit 
to the class. To most at least may be applied the couplet 
in Chaucer's Prologue — which we learned or might have 



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learned from the lips of dear old Dean Murray in our 
Junior year: 

"Of Christes love and His Apostles twelve 
He taught — but first he foUow^ed it himselve." 
Charles Alex. Richmond, 

Albany, N. Y., loth February, 1904. 



OUR BELOVED DEAD 



OUR BELOVED DEAD 

By The Class Secretary 

"What pleasant memories we have 
Of all they said and did." 

MANY of us remember those sad trying days at the 
end of Freshman year, when typhoid took from 
us the attractive and popular Jack Rainsford, and 
the earnest, studious Frank Pennington, and soon after the 
quiet, plodding Marks. Toward the end of Junior year, 
the gifted and beloved Will Beattie, whose earnest Christian 
life carried its own strong message. Then five years elapsed 
before death claimed Sam. Smith in 1885, and six years later, 
in 1891, Hawes followed Smith. Both from Dayton, Ohio, 
they bravely fought the inevitable. With a brilliant future 
before him in architecture, with exceptional refinement of 
taste and lofty ideals, Fred White yielded to disease only 
three years after graduation. A month later, Win. Thomp- 
son, quiet and retired in College, died in New York, while 
in August of that same year, 1886, the Class was shocked to 
learn that Tom Summerill had completed life's work here. 
Tom had those sterling, manly qualities of scholarship and 
character, which endeared him to all. The next year, that 
unique character, Victor Hicks, died in California. Hicks 

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was good-natured and ready to give the Class all the fun and 
pleasure he could. We shall associate many scenes of in- 
terest with his college days. The next year, 1888, Landy 
Green died at his home. Far from robust in college, he 
was early a marked man. Ere long the sad tidings came 
that the long and brave struggle which Bob McKnight had 
so heroically fought, had terminated. Bob was one of the 
most lovable men in the Class, and his Christian patience 
and fortitude, his cheerfulness was a lesson to all who were 
familiar with his later years. He was gifted, true and full 
of fine chivalry. Then we lost one of the few Southerners 
of the Class. "Ben" Butler was a truly lovable boy, — 
for he always seemed a boy — and some of us recall him 
most pleasantly. After having practiced law for several 
years, "Johnny" Hiestand, yielded, for we remember him 
as a cripple, and handicapped in life, but always holding 
his own with the brightest. He loved debate, and was a 
high stand student. After practicing medicine for some 
years in Philadelphia, Bert Agnew died. His was a quiet, 
retiring disposition, but respected by his Class, and we 
looked for success in his chosen profession. Thus far, Elmer 
Hawes is the only married man to die, but now we record 
the death of that popular and big-hearted leader of College 
days, George Fleming, who left a lovely wife and a beautiful 
home, and died early in 1898. Tom Merryweather had 
not been heard much of or seen in later years, and yet we 
all remember his quiet, winsome personality of College days. 
We now make record of one of the most gifted and brilliant 
of our ex-members, William Belden Noblej of Washington, 
D. C, who was with us only Freshman year, was one of the 
"Salt of the Earth." A fine student, tall, handsome, 

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athletic, on the Lacrosse team, generous, true and com- 
manding, could he have lived he would have made a name. 
As it was '83 can be proud that she started him on his univer- 
sity career, and that Harvard gleaned the richer contribution 
of his life to the cause of Christian ideals and education. 
After graduating from Harvard, where he was a power for 
good, and ere he left the Divinity School, he died. His 
widow, a lovely and gracious Christian woman, founded the 
William Belden Noble Lecture Course, and a mural tablet 
is erected in the Phillips Brooks House in the Harvard Yard, 
the Y.M.C.A. building of the University, to his memory. 
The Lectures upon the foundation were first given in 1898, 
entitled: "The Message of Christ to Manhood," published 
by Houghton, Miflftin & Co. 

In this volume appears a remarkable tribute to Noble, 
by Dr. Alex. V. G. Allan, the biographer of Phillips Brooks. 
We do not like to think of Shelby as silent, for his four years 
of legal life, merged into that of a teacher, and he was doing 
a broad and useful work. He was enthusiastic and high- 
minded in whatever he undertook. 

Referring to the death of "Buck" Antrim, Phillips who 
visited him in Bordentown, N. J., in 1901, says: "Antrim 
was verily one of Nature's noblemen — magnanimous, big- 
hearted and a true and loyal friend." Neither Dickinson or 
Baldwin had very strong constitutions to face life, and each 
yielded early in life than we hoped. Hunter St. John, after 
rather an active career as a Doctor and Specialist, succumbed 
even as all physicians have to, sooner or later with the rest 
of us. Thus nineteen of our Class have passed on. Some 
of us still have a few years yet to carry out God's highest re- 
quirements. In the New York Observer of April 2d, 1903, 

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our own beloved Finney has put the issue earnestly and 
truly. He calls it "My Resurrection." 

"At the sound of resurrection trump 
What form shall I assume ? 
That of a body cleansed from sin 
Or one to meet sin's doom ? 

Oh God, help me to learn this truth, 
That as I live, I die. 
And rise again to bliss or woe 
Through all eternity." 

GEORGE P. WAY'S DEATH 

From the New York Sun, of Sunday, August 5th, 1900. 

"London, Aug. 4. — A despatch from Chur, Switzerland, 
says that a disaster occurred on Thursday to a party of 
tourists on the Forno glacier in the upper Engadine. Two 
American members of the party were killed. They were 
G. P. Way and son, who had been staying at Maloje. Their 
bodies have been recovered. 

Berne, Aug. 4, 1900.- — A despatch from Silvapiana states 
that Mr. Way and his fourteen-year-old son and another 
tourist essayed to make the ascent of the Cima di Rosso from 
Maloja without a guide. They took the wrong route up the 
mountain and got into a difficult position. Mr. Way slipped 
and dragged his son, to whom he was roped, and both fell 
into a crevasse on the Great Glacier, a distance of 400 metres. 
Mr. Way was instantly killed. His son was subsequently 
found clinging to a rock, suffering from terrible injuries. He 
died shortly after being discovered. 

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The survivors hastened to Maloja for assistance and the 
villagers quickly formed a relief party. They soon found 
Mr. Way's body and endeavored to save the boy's life, but 
without success. 

Mr. Way visited Maloja every year. 

De La Rue w^as the name of the third member of the Way 
party. 

A later despatch says the Ways mistook the path during 
the ascent, and Mr. Way caught hold of a block of rock 
w^hich yielded and dragged him down. His son was able 
to cling to the rocks. Mr. De la Rue was injured in the 
hand. 



Mr. Way formerly lived in Yonkers, in a handsome house 
on Shonnard terrace. He was about 35 years of age, was a 
graduate of Princeton '83, and while at college was a leader 
in athletics. He joined the New York Athletic Club in 
i88g, and resigned in 1897. A few years after leaving 
college he contracted a severe cold which developed into 
pneumonia. Although he recovered, his lungs were per- 
manently weakened and he had lived abroad for the last 
twelve years, spending the winters in Rome and the summers 
in the Swiss Alps. Two years ago Mr. Way accomplished 
the ascent of the Matterhorn, and he had performed other 
feats of mountain climbing. This summer Mr. Way and 
his wife went to Maloja in the Engadine, where there was 
a party of Americans. Mr. Way was looked upon as the 
leader of the colony en account of his experience in the 
mountains, and he was very popular there. His son, George 
P. Way, Jr., was 14 years old, and had been attending school 
at Lawrenceville, N. J. At the close of the school term 

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this year, the boy paid a visit to his home in Yonkers, and 
left three weeks ago to join his parents for the remainder of 
his vacation. Mrs. Way is the daughter of J. S. Merriman 
of 209 West Fifty-sixth Street. Mr. Way was the son of 
George P. Way, a Philadelphian, who died about three 
years ago, leaving a large fortune. A sister of Mr. Way is 
the wife of Franklin R. Haines, Yonkers agent of the Bar- 
ber Asphalt Company. At the home of Mr. Haines last 
evening, a reporter was told that the family had not as yet 
received any direct news of the accident, but had sent in- 
quiry by cable to the hotel where the Way family were 
stopping. 

The ascent of the Cima di Rosso is one of the usual ex- 
cursions from Maloja at the head of the Engadine Valley. 
It is attempted usually only by experienced Alpine climbers 
and good guides are necessary. To reach the peak it is 
necessary to cross the Forno glacier. The elevation of 
Cima di Rosso is 11,060 feet. The ascent from the glacier 
usually takes three hours; the trip from Maloja to the top 
requiring six hours. The Cima is exactly on the boundary 
of Italy and Switzerland, and lies due south of Maloja and 
due east of Chiavenna. This summer's season so far has 
seen an uncommon number of accidents in the Alps, many 
of them in places that were not considered dangerous. It 
may be due to the heat, which this year has been intense in 
Europe, melting the snow masses more than usual, and 
making the conditions of Alpine climbing different from 
what they are in normal years." 



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"The building of the perfect man is the noblest work that can 
go on in the world. It is the very crown of God's creation." 

— Phillips Brocks. 

" 'Tis not the whole of life to live 
Nor all of death to die." 

— James Montgomery 



Isaac E. Antrim, January 1902 

At Bordentown, N. J. 

Hurlbert Agnew, M. D., April 6, 1894 

At Philadelphia, Pa. 

Joseph E. Baldwin, 

At Talland, Conn. 1903 

William W. Butler, November 29, 1891 

At Augusta, Ga. 
Warren M. Dickinson, February i, 1896 

At Norristown, Pa. 
George Fleming, January 6, 1898 

At Harrisburg, Pa. 

Orlando Green, February 20, 1888 

At Jackson, Miss 
Elmer Ellsworth Hawes, March 4, 18:91 

At Dayton, O. 
Victor Lucas Hicks, March, 1887 

At San Francisco, Cal. 

169 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

John A. Hiestand, June 2, 1894 

At Marietta, Pa. 
Hunter St. John, M. D. March 4, 1902 

At Pittsburg, Pa. 
Robert McKnight, February 14, 1889 

At Montecito, Cal. 
Thomas B. Merryweather, 

Wm. Belden Noble, Early in 1897. 

Wm. K. Shelby, September 20, 1900 

At Lexington, Ky. 
Samuel Irving Smith, September 29, 1885 

At Dayton, O. 
Thomas C. Summerill, August 28, 1886 

At Penn's Grove, N. [. 
Winfield B. Thompson, June 18, 1886 

At New York City, N Y. 
Frederick Barnard White, May 22, 1886 

At Bloomfield, N. J. 
George Pierce Way, Jr., August 2, 1900 

Killed on Cima di Rosso Glacier, Ober Engadine, 
Switzerland 

THE FOLLOWING DIED BEFORE GRADUATING 

Wilham C. Beattie, April 2, 1882 

A.W.Marks, September 17, 1880 

Francis Pennington, June 6, 1880 

At Newark, N. J. 
John C. Rainsford, June 2, 1880 

At New York City, N. Y. 



170 



'83 CLASS SONGS 



'83 CLASS SONGS 

CLASS ODE OF '83 

At Graduation, June 18, 188 J 

WORDS BY CHARLES VANCE THOMPSON 
MUSIC BY CHARLES I. YOUNG 

A song to greet the morning ! 

The woven shadows gray, 
The golden mists of dawning 

Roll back and it is day. 
And boyhood's dreams and pleasures, 

And all that fancy rears — 
Shrink back before the measures 

Of the diviner years. 

CHORUS 

Farewell — no more together 

Are battles fought and won — 
We part, and none knows whither 

The swift years bear him on. 
Yet tho' we part and sever. 

Are we not one forever, 
All one in love for Old Nassau, 

All one in Eighty-three ! 

173 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Life comes to each one, bringing 

Her gifts of love and faith, 
Of sorrow, and of singing, 

Of tears and peace and death; 
With hps that mock and flatter, 

With garlands for the brow. 
With hands that hold and scatter. 

She stands before us now. — Cho. 

Forth ! woo her as a lover 

Woos at his lady's knee, 
Until she bless thee over 

All that thy prayers may be. 
The brave have ever won her. 

The true have known her best, 
She giveth gold and honor 

Still to the worthiest. — Cho. 

And when the years made holy 

With battles lost and won. 
Look wearily and slowly 

Unto the setting sun, 
Our hearts shall turn, my brother, 

Like pilgrims worn and gray. 
Back to the sacred Mecca — 

The shrine we leave to-day ! 

CHORUS 

Farewell! our Alma Mater — 

Our love, our hopes — to thee — 
The dawning day shall scatter 

Thy sons of Eighty-three. 
Yet, brothers, though we sever, 

Still are we one forever — 
All one in love for old Nassau, 

All one in Eighty-three. 

174 



1 



CLASS SONGS 
TRIENNIAL SONG, '83 

June 22, 1886 
BY CHARLES ALEXANDER RICHMOND 

Tune — Annie Lisle. A\). 

Comrades, now with joy returning 

To old Nassau's praise. 
Heart with warm devotion burning 

Loyal songs shall raise. 
Sing her ancient fame and splendor. 

Sing both loud and free. 
To our glorious Alma Mater, 

To old '83. 

CHORUS 

Voices blending, praise ascending. 

Sing both loud and free, 
To our glorious Alma Mater, 

To old '83. 

Treasures we have sought to borrow 

From the rolling years, 
'Mid their weight of joy and sorrow, 

'Mid their gloomy fears. 
At thy feet our wreaths we'll scatter. 

Dedicate to thee 
All our laurels. Alma Mater, 

And to '83.— C/^o. 

Grief has spread her shadow o'er us. 

Mourn we then to-day 
Those whose memory bright before us 

Ne'er shall fade away. 
But with hearts united closer 

Firm and true stand we. 
Health we pledge to Alma Mater, 

Health to '83. 

^15 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

CHORUS 

Loyal ever, failing never, 
Firm and true stand we; 
Health we pledge to Alma Mater, 
Health to '83. 

SEXENNIAL SONG 

June 18, l88g 

BY CHARLES ALEXANDER RICHMOND 

Tune — " Launger Ho7'atius," Key of G 

Here's to Thee, Old Eighty-three — 

All her sons shall greet her. 
Home we draw to old Nassau, 

Joyfully we meet her. 

'83, a health to Thee — 

Loudly we commend her. 
'83, Thy Sons are we — 
Proudly we'll defend her. 

Hearts keep time, in joy sublin e 
Shout her name so glorious; 

Voices strong shall swell the song. 
Sounding high the chorus. 

'83, Thy Sons are we — 

Loving hearts commend her; 

Strong and free in '83 
Loyally defend her. 

Brooding cares, through changing years, 

Trail their shadow o'er us; 
Death's return we sadly mourn — 

Comrades gone before us. 

176 



^ 



CLASS SONGS 

Still in Thee, old '83, 
Memory fadeth never; 

'83, in love to Thee 
We are one forever. 

But to night no care shall blight, 
Joy shall reign supremely. 

Here's to Thee, sweet '83, 
Mistress fair and queenly. 

'83, a health to Thee — 

Loudly we'll commend her. 

'83, Thy Sons are we — 
Proudly we'll defend her. 



DECENNIAL SONG 

June J J, l8g3 
By Charles Alexander Richmond 

Tune — " Auld Lang Syne." 

A health to cheer ! we pledge it here, 

For a loyal heart we call. 
A flowing glass to the dear old class, 

A health to Nassau Hall. 

CHORUS 

A health to Nassau Hall, my boys. 
Here's a health to Nassau Hall, 

A flowing glass to the dear old class. 
And a health to Nassau Hall. 

177 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Like fond old dreams those kindly scenes 
Where memory loves to dwell, 

The laugh, the tear, seem round us here. 
In the halls we loved so well. 



CHORUS 

In the halls we loved so well, my dear, 
In the halls we loved so well. 

The laugh, the tear, seem round us here, 
In the halls we loved so well. 



And though we part, for many a year, 
Kind memories still shall draw. 

From every home our sons shall come 
To the shades of old Nassau. 



CHORUS 

To the shades of old Nassau, my boys, 
To the shades of old Nassau, 

From every home our sons shall come 
To the shades of old Nassau. 



Then here's a hand, my trusty friend. 

And give a hand to me. 
And we'll pledge a glass to the dear old class: 

Long life to '83. 

CHORUS 

Long life to '83, my boys, 

Long life to '83. 
We'll pledge a glass to the dear old class : 

Long life to '83. 

178 



CLASS SONGS 
TWENTIETH REUNION 

June g, igoj 

by charles alexander richmond 

Our Class 

To be sung to "Mr. Dooley" 

We've seen the new gymnasium and Alexander Hall 

We've seen the Team that show^ed Old Harvard how to play 

Base Ball, 
But the finest thing in Princeton is the Class of Eighty-three. 
We're proud of President Wilson and our "Ancient Facultee." 

CHORUS 

Then here's to you, Sir — and here's to you, Sir, 
And here's to Princeton University. 
But you may bet. Sir — we'll not forget, Sir — 
The Class of Eighty — Eighty — Eighty — Three. 

We're a solid aggregation of notorious gossoons. 
We've an Ex-Attorney General and a General of Dragoons, 
A Judge in Jersey City and a Judge in Tammany Hall, 
And Jack Hodge the brave Trust Buster who is not a judge 
at all. 

Chorus. — Then here's to you, Sir. 

We've a celebrated Actor and a famous Engineer, 
A Labrador Explorer and a Texan Pioneer 
In Guam and Iloilo we are still the Nation's hope, 
For we wash the Aborigines with Proctor's Ivory Soap. 

Chorus. — Then here's to you, Sir. 

179 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

We've Doctors by the dozen and we've Barristers to burn, 
You'll run across our Preachers in whatever land you turn, 
In Syria and Dakota and way down in Jersey mud, 
And where on all the planet will you find another Rudd ? 

Chorus. — Then here's to you, Sir. 

Then here's to our Reunion and the days we used to know. 
We'll crown the goodly fellowship of Twenty Years ago. 
And here's to dear old Jimmie and our brothers who have 

gone, 
And here's to Woodrow Wilson and our sons a-coming on. 

Chorus. — Then here's to you. Sir. 



OUR GIFTS 
TO ALMA MATER 



OUR PRIZES 

The College has been enriched by prizes from the Class of 
'83 as follows: 

1. The Lyman H. Atwater Prize in Political Science. 
Interest on $1000. 

2. The Frederick Barnard White Prize in Architecture. 

3. The Thos. B. Wanamaker Prize in English Literature. 
Interest on $1,000. 

4. The Library Alcove on Political Science. 

5. Class of 1883 Prize for English in the School of 
Science. 

'83's REUNION GIFT 



The Presentation 

Real Estate Trust Building, 

Philadelphia, June 7, 1904. 
The Board of Trustees of Princeton University, 

Princeton, New Jersey. 
Sirs: — 

Asa memorial of their Twentieth Reunion, the Members 
of the class of 1883 have subscribed to a fund to establish 
two annual prizes in English for students in the School of 
Science. 

As a Class, we have the honor to extend to you our con- 
gratulations upon the progress made by our beloved Alma 
Mater and to request that you accept the sum of twenty-one 
hundred and forty-six (2146) dollars and ten cents (10), as 
an endowment fund for two equal annual prizes to be award- 
ed to the students in the School of Science, for proficiency in 
the study of the English Language and Literature; one an- 

183 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

nual prize to be awarded to a student in the General Science 
Department, and one annual prize to be awarded to a stu- 
dent in the Civil Engineering Department. 

It is also the desire of the Class that these prizes be known 
as the "Class of 1883 Prizes for English in the School of 
Science." 

The details of the regulations governing the award of the 
prizes, the determination of the Class for which they will be 
available and the investment of the fund, we desire to place 
at the disposition of your honored board. 

We hold the fund in hand and will transmit it to whomso- 
ever you may direct. 

On behalf of the Class of 1883, Princeton University, 
(Signed) Frank C. Roberts, 

Vice-President and Treasurer. 

The Acceptance 

June 17, 1904. 
Dear Sir: — 

At a meeting of the Trustees of Princeton University, 
held June 13th, your letter of June 7th was read and the fol- 
lowing resolution was adopted : 

"Resolved that the Board accept with much gratification, 
the generous gift of the Class of 1883 of ;^2,i46.io as an en- 
dowment fund for two equal annual prizes, to be known as 
the 'Class of 1883 Prizes for English in the School of 
Science,' and that the Secretary be instructed to convey to 
the Class, the thanks of the Board for this substantial ex- 
pression by the Class of 1883 of its continued interest in 
the welfare of the University." 

Respectfully yours, 

C. W. McAlpin, Secretary. 
To Frank C. Roberts, Esq., 

Vice-President and Treasurer of the 
Class of 1883, Philadelphia, Pa. 

184 



REPORT OF THE MEMORIAL 
COMMITTEE 

To THE Class of 1883 : 

Your Class Memorial Committee submits the following 
report for your information. 

It will be recalled that at our last Reunion an earnest 
effort was made to increase the Endowment Fund of "The 
Class of 1883 Library of Political Science and Jurispru- 
dence." We regret, however, to be compelled to announce 
to the Class that the result of this effort was most disappoint- 
ing. Unless the members of the Class present at this Re- 
union will unite in a voluntary movement to place the En- 
dowment Fund on a substantial basis, the Committee feel 
that they should be discharged and relieved of further re- 
sponsibility. Undoubtedly, the present endowment is en- 
tirely inadequate and it remains for the Class to determine 
whether this condition meets with its approval. What the 
Committee desires is ^1,000. 

We also regret to announce that the unpaid subscriptions 
to date amount to $803.50 with apparently no prospect of 
further payments on this account. 

The Treasurer's report is as follows : 
Frank C Roberts, Treasurer, Class Memorial Fund, 

In account with the Class of 1883 — Princeton University. 

Dr. 

Payments of Subscriptions to date $3416.50 

Interest to date 57-36 

$3473.86 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 

Cr. 

Payments to E. C. Osborne, Treas., for 

books purchased ;^i562.05 

Grille for Library loo.oo 

Book Plate 60.95 

Printing Catalogue 39-50 

Payments to E. C. Osborne, Treas., on 

account of Endowment Fund 1500.00 

Expense account — Otto Grouse 25.00 

Hand stamps — paid J. A. Hodge 6.50 

Printing 5.75 3299.75 

Balance — Cash on hand $174.11 

The Committee requests that a Committee be appointed 
to examine the subscription lists and to audit the accounts 
to date; it is requested that this Committee report during 
the present Reunion. 

Very truly yours, 

Henry G. Bryant, Chairman. 
Frank C. Roberts, Treasurer. 
Philadelphia, Pa., June 5th, 1903. 

auditor's report 

Princeton, June 9, 1903. 
The undersigned Auditors appointed by the Class Com- 
mittee, June 8th, have examined the above account and find 
same correct, with vouchers for all payments. 

W. P. Finney, 

W. C. OSBORN. 



186 



CLASS MARRIAGES, BIRTHS 
AND ADDRESSES 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 



Henry A. Alexander 

TO 

Miss Grace Alice Green 



Miss Alexander, 



New York City 

. born I 



William A. Annin 

TO 

Miss Anna Laurie Wilkins 



June 27, 1899, 

AT 

RoUa, Mo. 



children: 
Pauline Elizabeth Annin, at Boonville, Mo. bornApril 8,1900 
JohnWilkinsAnmn,at Rolla, Mo. . . " June 9,1902 



Thomas A. C. Baker 

TO 

Miss Emily Elizabeth Curtis 



August 3, 1896 

AT 

Wadebridge, England 



Joseph E. Baldwin f 

TO 

Miss Mamie E. Sewell 



December 30, 1885 

AT 

Lambertville, N. J. 



children: 



Joseph E.Baldwin, Jr.,* 
Marjorie Jewell Baldwin, . 
*Died 



bcrnMay 2,1 
" Feb. 27,1 
+Died, igoj 



Bennington R. Bedle 

TO 

Miss Lilian L. Hutton 



child: 
Dorset Forman Bedle, at Sheffield, Ens 



December 30, 1893 

AT 

Sheffield, England 

. bornDec. 31,1895 



Charles H. Bonbright 

TO 

Miss Delia May Windus 

Carl Windus Bonbright, 



May 15, 1890 



born Nov. 18, iS 



Charles L. Borgmeyer 

TO 

Miss M. Dean Haddon 



Henrietta DeC. Borgmeyer, 



December 3, 1885, 

AT 

Brooklyn, N. Y 



189 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 



Joseph Y. Brattan 

TO 

Miss Lizzie L. Hunt 



children: 



Elizabeth Hunt Brattan 
Catherine Winifred Brattan 



February ii, i8q2. 

AT 

EUicott City, Md. 

born I So-! 



Rev. Claude Ross Brodhead 

TO 

Miss Mary Isabel Lombard* I 

TO 

Miss JosephinePhelps,M.D. 

Cl 

Leonard Phelps Brodhead, 
*Died September, igoo. 



June 7, 1893, 

AT 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

AT 

Germantown, Pa. 

. born June 6, 1903 



Albert P. Carman 

TO 

Miss Maude W. Straight 



June 21, 1900, 

AT 

Oak Park, 111. 



Edward B. Carter 

TO 

Miss S. Hay Scattergood 



February 21, 1898 

AT 

Philadelphia, Pa. 



Otto Crouse 

TO 

Miss Christine L. S. Bowen 

children: 
Wellington Shelton Crouse, 
Cornelia Curtis Crouse, 
Otto Crouse, Jr., .... 



December 14, 1897 

AT 

Jersey City, N. J. 



Samuel M. Davis 



June 24, 1 89 1, 



Miss Frances W. Wagner* I Minneapolis, Minn 



Miss Mabel Keith 



September 30, 1896, 



children: 
Samuel Keith Davis, . . . . born Dec. 26, iJ 

Laura Maud Davis, . . . . ^. " July 28, iJ 

*Died November i2, 1894. 



190 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 



Clinton Spencer Day 

TO 

Miss Marion Graves 



September 13, i88( 

AT 

Springfield, N. J. 



Franklin Duane 

TO 

Miss Catharine N. Carpender 



Nov. 26, 1 90 1, 

AT 

^ew Brunswick, N. J. 



CHILD 

Howard Duane, born Oct. 23d, 1902 



Rev. George Edwards 

TO 

Miss Mary A. Catlin* 

TO 

Mrs. Annie W. Fisher 



April 4, 1889, 

AT 

CatHn Ranch, Mont. 

January 5, 1897 
Great Falls, Mont. 



Miss Edwards, f 

*Died April, i8go. 



born 
f Died same year. 



Daniel A. Fell 

TO 

Miss Frances L. Bertels 



October 10, 1888, 

AT 

Wilkesbarre, Pa. 



children: 



Harold Bertels Fell, at Wilkesbarre, Pa., . born August i8 , 1889 

Daniel Ackley Fell, " March 27, 1898 

Alexander Gray Fell, 2d, . . . . " Jan. 18,1900 

John Gillingham Fell, . . . . " Dec. 14,1902 



William Pierson Field 

TO 

Miss Josephine D. Smith 



January 12, 1887, 

AT 

Newark, N. J. 



child: 
William Thayer Field, at Newark, N. J., . born Sept. 19, li 



191 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 



Rev. Wm. Parker Finney 



child: 
William P. Finney, Jr., .... born Jan. 



Miss Pamela R. Richardson* 

am P. Finney, Jr., 
*Died January 31, i 

TO 

Miss Kate A. Richardson 



October 5, 1887, 

AT 

Bel Air, Md. 



October 5, 1897, 

AT 

Moorestown, N. J. 



D. K. Este Fisher 

10 
Miss Sally McLane 

children: 
David Kirkpatrick Este Fisher . 
Louise Este Fisher, 
Sophie McLane Fisher, 
Louis McLane Fisher, 



November 25, 1890, 

AT 

Baltimore, Md. 

. born Feb. 2,1892 

" Feb. 27,1896 

" Dec. 20,1898 

" Aug. 3,1901 



George R. Fleming * 

TO 

Miss Eliza M. Robinson 

*Died Jan. 6, 1898. 



October 9, 1890, 

AT 

Allegheny, Pa. 



Howard Hunt Garmany 

TO 

Miss Caroline Day Bissell 



October 27, 1899, 

AT 

New York, N. Y. 



Rev. George W. Gilmore April 28, 1886, 

TO AT 

Miss Emily C. S. Lake Brooklyn, N. Y. 

child: 

David Percy Gilmore, at Seoul, Korea, . bornNov. i8, 188'; 



James S. Harlan 

TO 

Miss Mary M. Noble 



November 30, 1897, 

AT 

Washington, D. C. 



Oliver Harriman, Jr. 

TO 

Miss Grace Carley 

Oliver Carley Harriman, 



January 28, 1891, 

AT 

New York, N. Y. 

. born Jan. 17, 1894 



192 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 



Rev. Albert K. Harsha 

TO 

Miss Belle Poineer* 



Miss Helen J. McLean 

*Deceased. 



November 3, 188 

AT 

Newark, N. J. 
October 9, 1889 

Al- 

Newbury, Ont. 



Elmer C. Hawes* 

•JO 

Miss Lowella M. Stoutf 

*Died March 4, 1891. 



June 27, 1884, 

AT 

Dayton, Ohio 

f Died November 6, 1887. 



J. Triplett Haxall 

TO 

Miss Rose Stanley Gordon 



February 26, 1891, 

AT 

Baltimore, Md. 



children: 

Rose Stanley Gordon Haxall . . . born Jan. i8,i^ 

Anne Pleasant Haxall, . . . . " July 8,iJ 

J. Triplett Haxall, Jr., . . . . " May 20,1^ 



Charles Hewitt 

'10 

Miss Helen Scarborough 



September 20, 18 

AT 

Trenton, N. J. 



John Aspinwall Hodge, Jr. 

TO 

Miss Genevieve B. Karr 



children: 



Charlotte Morse Hodge 
Louise Karr Hodge, 
Katherine A. Hodge, 



May 29, 1888, 

AT 

Hartford, Conn. 

. born May 25,i88( 
" July 6,189c 
" Jan. 26,1896 



Rev. Frank E. Hoskins August 22, 188! 

TO AT 

Miss Harriette M. Eddy Beirut, Syria 

children: 

Jeanette Ives Hoskins, at Sak-al-Shah, . bornSept. 28,18! 

Horace Eddy Hoskins,* " " . " June 20, i8< 

Clara Bradley Hoskins, at Zahleh, . " Nov. i,i8( 

Harold Boies Hoskins, at Beirut, . . " May 19,181 

Ethel Evans Hoskins,f " . . " April I5,i8< 



*Died August j, 1891. 



fDied September 7, 18 



193 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 



George C. Howell 

TO 

Miss Mary A. Streit 



September 28, 18 

AT 

Newark, N. J. 



children: 

Richard Streit Howell,* at Long Branch, N.J. , born Aug. 1,1887 

George Samuel Howell, at Newark, N. J., . " Aug. 25,1889 

Katheryn Howell, at Newark, N. J., . " Sept. 10,1891 

Martha Streit Howell, at Newark, N. J., . " Sept. 2,1897 
*Died March 4, 1890. 



W. Goodrich Jones 

TO 

Miss A. Zollie Luther 

Theodore Luther Jones, 
Harietta Maxwell Jones, 
Also a girl. 



children: 



December 18, 1890, 

AT 

Belton, Texas 

. born Feb. 1,1894 
" Nov. 2,i8qc; 



Rev. George N. Karner 

TO 

Miss Emma Louise Cadmus 



January 15, 1889, 

AT 

Plainfield, N. J. 



children: 

Lenox Stanley Karner, at Manchester, N. H., born Nov. 28, 1889 

Clara Louise Karner, at Albany, N. Y., . " Feb. 7,1892 

Leo Newell J. Karner " " . " Oct. 1,1893 

Esther C. Karner, " " . " Sept. 7,1895 



Rev. Evan M. Landis 

TO 

Miss Emily D. Homer * 

One child (deceased) 



Miss Mabel S. Prouty 

*Died March, i8q;. 



April 30, 1888, 

AT 

Collegeville, Pa. 
December 2, 1896, 

AT 

Tabor, Iowa 



Rev. Henry M. Landis 

TO 

Miss Emily Stiefler 

Fritz Wilhelm Landis,* 
Eleanor May Landis, 
Paula Margaretha Landis, 
Also three other children. 

*Died February 7, i8qz. 



children: 



July 16, 1888, 

AT 

Kamenz, Saxony 

. born May 11,1889 
" Jan. 9,1891 
" Nov. 11,1892 



194 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 



Lucius Allen Lewis 

TO 

Miss Anna Kittle 



October i8, 1898, 

AT 

San Francisco, Cal. 



Fred A. Libbey 



Miss Helen Irving Dennis 

children: 
Janet Irving Libbey, 
Also another child. 



September, 1890, 

AT 

New York, N. Y. 

. born March 29, 1893 



Benjamin W. Mitchell 

TO 

Miss Anna Lee Edwards 



December 31, 1884, 

AT 

Cumberland, Md. 



David Percy Morgan 

TO 

Miss Edith Parsons 



CHILDREN 



Helen Morgan . 
Edith Percy Morgan, 
David Percy Morgan, Jr., . 
John E. Parsons Morgan, . 



October 7, 1886, 

AT 

Lenox, Mass. 



born Nov. 13,1888 

" Nov. o, 1891 

Sept. 4, 1894 

" Aug. 9,1895 



Richard Norris 

TO 

Miss Sara Dobson 



Mary D. Norris 



December 30, 1897, 

AT 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

. born March 10,1901 



William Church Osborn I 

TO I 

Miss Alice C. H. Dodge | 

CHILDREN 

Grace Osborn, .... 
Frederick Henry Osborn, 
Aileen Clinton Hoadley Osborn, 
Earle Dodge Osborn, 
William Henry Osborn, 



June 3, 1886, 

AT 

Riverdale, N. J. 

born April 5,1887 

" March 23, 1889 

June 29,1892 

1894 

1S95 



195 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 



Rev. Thomas Ross Paden 

TO 

Miss Margaret Lowes 



September 2, 1897, 

AT 

Vernon Centre, Minn. 



children: 



Edward Oakley Paden, 
Margaret Lucile Paden, 
William Paden, . 



born Oct. 25,1898 
" Oct. 26,1900 
" March 6,1903 



John E. Parmley 

■10 

Miss Lucy W. McDonald 



April 5, 1885, 

AT 

New Brunswick, N. J. 



F. A. C. Perrine 

TO 

Miss Margaret F. Roebling 

children: 
Margaret Perrine, at Palo Alto, Col., 
Anna Allison Perrine " " " 
John A. Roebling Perrine, at Pittsfield, 



June 23, 1893, 

AT 

Trenton, N. J. 



. born April 16,1894 
" Dec. 10, 1896 

Mass. " March 13, 1903 



Robert D. Petty 

TO 

Miss Florence Servis 



children: 



Ahce Petty, 
Robert D. Petty, Jr. 
Mary B. Petty, . 
Elizabeth Petty, . 
John H. Petty, . 



July 30, 1894, 

AT 

Junction, N. J. 

born June 22,1895 

" April 12, 1897 

" April 29, 1899 

" May 5, 1901 

" July 2,1903 



Latimer H. Prescott 

TO 

Dr. Jeanette Oliver 



September 14, 1903, 

AT 

Buffalo, N. Y. 



Rev. Charles A. Richmond 

TO 

Miss Sarah Cooper Locke 



children: 



Margaret Richmond, 
Frances Richmond, 
I.ocke Richmond, 



June 4, 1891, 

AT 

Buffalo, N. Y. 

born 1893 

" June 21,1897 



196 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 



May 26, 1886, 

AT 

Princeton, N. J. 



Frank C. Roberts 

TO 

Miss Amy Paxton 

children: 

Caroline Paxton Roberts,* at Philadelphia, Pa. born Nov. 24, 

Katherine Roberts, " " " " March 27,] 

Wm. Paxton Roberts, " " " " Feb. 9,] 

Frank C.Roberts, Jr., " " " " May 4,1 

Harmar Denny Roberts, " " " " Feb. 6,1 
♦Died May 4, 1888. 



Edwin Milton Royle 

TO 

Miss Selina Gray Fetter 

Josephine Fetter Royle, 



October i6, 1892 

AT 

New York, N. Y. 

. born 1902 



Sinclair K. Royle 

TO 

Miss Mary Cross 



November 9, 1889, 

AT 

Denver, Colo. 



Rev. Edward H. Rudd 

TO 

Miss Mary W. Dwight 



September 29, 1887, 

AT 

Pittsfield, Mass. 



children: 

Henry Williams Dwight Rudd, at Albion, N.Y. born Feb. 7, li 

Bessie Huntting Rudd, " " " June 4, iS 

Edward Huntting Rudd, Jr., " " " Oct. 15,18 



Rev. James C. Russell 

TO 

Miss M. Eda Sears 



March 7, 1888, 

AT 

Horseheads, N. Y. 



children: 
Henry Sears Russell, at Horseheads, N. Y. born Feb. 13,1890 
Marjorie Russell, " " " . " Aug. 19,1891 



Rev. Fred N. Rutan 

TO 

Miss Charlotte C. Starr 



June 24, 1891. 

AT 

Monticello, N. Y. 



children: 
Frederick Starr Rutan, at Montclair, N. J. born April 29, 1892 
Grace Huntington Rutan, " " " June 2,1893 



William C. Scott 

TO 

Miss Cornelia C. Palmier 



June I, 1895, 

AT 

New York, N. Y. 



197 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 



Robert W. Speir 

TO 

Miss Nannie S. Barker 



April 9, 1896, 

AT 

Baltimore, Md. 



Robert Wade Speir, Jr., 


. horn April 19, 1897 


Hunter St. John, M.D. 

TO 

/[iss Edith Gordon Sergeant 




James T. Sweetman 

TO 

Miss Susie Piatt Boyd 


May 8, 1889, 

AT 

Washington, D. C. 



Sydney Richmond Taber 

TO 

Miss Julia Biddle Cox 



October 18, 1890, 

AT 

Orange, N. J. 



children: 
Arthur Richmond Taber, at Far Rockaway,N.Y. born July 22, 1893 
Lydia Richmond Taber, at Lake Forest, 111. " Dec. 20, 1897 



Henry A. Towle, M.D. 

TO 

Miss Annie A. Hauck 

Mary Imogene Towle, 
George H. Towle, 
Gerarda Towle, 
Lucia Towle, 
Harry A. Towle, Jr., . 



children: 



April 18, 1888, 

AT 

Newark, N. J. 

born Feb. 6,1889 

" Jan. 21,1897 

" June 10,1900 

" Oct. 27,1891 

" April 6,1895 



William R. Trainer 

TO 

Miss Mary H. Hagan 

John Hagan Trainer, 



April 20, 1892, 

AT 

Steubenville, Ohio 

. born Dec. 18, 1893 



Rev. Hartley T. Updike 

TO 

Miss Virginia K. Blackwood 

children: 
Helen T. Updike,* .... 
Archibald Raymond Updike, at Livonia, 
Mary Ella Updike, at Trenton, N. J. . 
Wesley Russell Updike, " " 
*Died, Aug. 2}, 1894. 



July 21, 1891, 

AT 

Kansas City, Mo. 



. born August 23, 1894 

Ind. " Dec. 21,1895 

" March 20, 1898 

" Feb. 22, 1900 



198 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 



Edward Vollrath 

TO 

Miss Millie Wise 

Jeanne Vollrath, 
Edna Vollrath, . 
Victor Vollrath, 
Carol Vollrath, . 
Edward Vollrath, Jr., 



CHILDREN 



June 27, 1888, 

AT 

Bucyrus, Ohio 

born Oct. 25,188c 
" May 29,1891 



Rev. Mindo G. VulchcfF 

TO 

Miss Louise Turner 



December 13, 1888, 

AT 

Hoosic Falls, N. Y. 



children: 
Margaritta Vulcheff, . . . . . born July 22, iS 

Andrew Emery Vulcheff,* . . . . " Jan. 31,18 
*Died June 11, i8g8. 



Francis Rawle Wadleigh 

TO 

Miss Mariana Rogers 



Francis Rawle Wadleigh, Jr., 



March 24, 1898^ 

AT 

Petersburg, Va. 

. born June 9, i8gi 



Thomas B. Wanamaker 

TO 

Miss Mary Lowber Welsh 



Rodman Wanamaker, 2d , 



April 27, 1887, 

AT 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

. born Oct. 10, 1899 



Aaron Condit Ward, M.D. 

TO 

Miss Sylvina Haskins 



children: 
Harold Ward, at Newark, N. J. 
Walter Haskins Ward , 

"Our Class Twins.' 



September 7, 1887, 

AT 

Irvington, N. J. 

i born May 8, 1889 



George P. Way, Jr.* 

TO 

Miss Louise Angele Merriam 

CH 

George P. Way, 3df , 
♦ Deceased. 



May 19, 1885 

AT 

New York City 

born Oct. 12, 1886 
t Deceased 



199 



TWENTY YEARS AFTER 



Frank L. Whitlock 

TO 

Miss Mattie M. Walker 



October 31, 1883, 

AT 

Chester, S. C. 

children: 

Alice Whitlock, bornSept. 19,1884 

Frank L. Whitlock, Jr., . . . . " March 23,1887 

'83 "Class Boy." 



Andrew W. Wilson 

TO 

Miss Bessie G. Lanson 



children: 
Sara Sansom Wilson, at Indiana, Pa. 
Anna Graham Wilson, at Saltsburg, Pa. 
Elizabeth Wilson,* " " 

Gladys Margaret Wilson, " " 

Ella May Wilson, 

*Died March i8, 1895. 



August 22, l88( 

AT 

Saltsburg, Pa. 



born June 7,1890 
" Nov. 8,1891 
" May 11,1893 
" August 9,1898 
" April 20,1900 



Charles G. Wilson 

TO 

Miss Jennie L. Kinninger 



children: 



Margaret Wilson, 
Abby Wilson, 
Lois Wilson, 



October 22, 1885, 

AT 

Bowling Green, Ohio 



born Jan. 16,1887 
" July 23,1891 
" Nov. 10, i8qc 



Rev. Frank C. Woods 

TO 

Miss Virginia Lee Hall 



children: 



Robert Hall Woods, 
Virginia Woods, 
Isabel Woods, 
Francis Churchill Woode , 



October 5, 1887, 

AT 

Baltimore, Md. 



. born July i8,i888 

" April 5,1890 

" Jan. 24, 1892 

" June 13,1903 



Robert Sterling Yard 

TO 

Miss Mary Belle Moffat 

Margaret Moffat Yard, . 



June 4, 1895, 

AT 

Princeton, N. J. 

. born April lo, 1902 



200 



MARRIAGES AND CHILDREN 



EX-MEMBERS 



John Barclay 

TO 

Miss Coulter 



John Barclay, Jr. 



April 3, i8q7 



born June 12, 1900 



Gustavus C. Darlington 

TO 

Miss Kate B. Weaver* 



1885, 

AT 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 



children: 



Marguerite B.Darlington, . 
Charles Darlington, 
*Died 1898. 



William Henry Gulick 

TO 

Miss Carry E. Dismaut 



Helen Gulick, 



Samuel Moor Shoemaker 

TO 

Miss Ellen Ward Whitridge 

children: 
Ellen Whitridge Shoemaker, ■ 
Samuel Moor Shoemaker, Jr., 



November, 1884 



born Feb. 18 
born Dec. li 



201 



ROLL AND LATEST ADDRESS* OF CLASS 



Name 


Occupation 


Residence 


William Paton Agnew 

Henry A. Alexander 

William Alexander Annin. . . . 


Business .... 
Lawyer .... 
Teacher .... 

Lawyer 

Business. . . . 

Lawyer 

Business. . . . 


Palisades, N. Y. 

1 8 Rue Scribe, Paris, France 

Macon, Mo. 

Bel Air, Md. 


Thomas A. C. Baker. ...:... 

Charles L. Borgmeyer 

Charles H. Bonbright 


Manayunk, Phila., Pa. 

Bayonne, N. J. 

310 Court St., E., Flint, Mich. 

15 Exchange Place, Jersey City, N. J. 




Editor 

Minister .... 
Explorer . . . 

Farmer 

Traveler .... 
Rancher .... 
Lawyer .... 
Lawyer .... 

Business. . . . 
Engineer. . . . 
Physician . . . 
Minister .... 

Lawyer .... 
Business. . . . 
Lawyer .... 
Minister .... 
Business. . . . 
Business. . . . 
Professor. . . 
Physician . . . 


Claude Ross Brodhead 

Henry Grier Bryant 

Edward B. Carter 


Jewett, New Mexico 

806 Land Title Bldg., Phila., Pa. 


Charles Craig Colt 


University Club, New York 
Brady, McDonough Co., Texas 
15 Exchange Place, Jersey City, N. J. 
12 Bristol and Rowley Block, Santa 

Anna, C alifornia 
Care of R. G. Dun & Co., Chicago, 111. 
Wilmington, Del. 
Arkansas City, Kansas 
1 107 Fifth Ave., North, Great Falls, 

Mont. 
54 Bennett Bldg., Wilkes Barre, Pa. 
976 Broad Street, Newark, N. J. 
Los Angeles, Cal. 
Moorestown, N. J. 
Baltimore, Md. 
State Bank, Hartford, Conn. 
Meadville, Pa. 








Clinton Spencer Day 






Daniel Alexander Fell 

William P. Field ... 


EsteK. D.Fisher 


William Parker Finney 

James Powers Flint 

Howard H. Garmany 


Walter D. Green 


looi Chestnut Street Phila., Pa. 


Harry W. Hall 


Care Lee, Lash Co., 140 W. 39th St., 

New York 
1 123 Marquette Building, Chicago, 111. 
30 Broad Street, N. Y. City 
Beirut, Syria 
120 Broadway, N. Y. City 




Lawyer .... 
Lawyer .... 
Missionary. . 
Business .... 


John Aspinwall Hodge 

Franklin Evans Hoskins 

Oliver Harriman, Jr 



*Correct to January i, 1905. 



202 




TWENTY YEARS AFTER 



Name 


Occupation 


Residence 




Minister .... 
Business. . . . 
Engineer. .. . 
Business. . . . 


Pueblo, Col. 


T Triplett Haxall 




Charles Hewitt 


428W.Stafford St., Germantown, Pa. 

216 Greenwich Street, N. Y. City 

Chicago, 111. 

Temple, Texas 

Plainfield, N. J. 

62 Summit Avenue, Jersey City 

Sallisaw, I. T. 

Meiji Gakwin, Shirokane, Tokyo, 

Japan 
Portland, Oregon 
44 Wall Street, New York City 


George Coes Howell 


W. Goodrich Jones 


Business. . . . 
Minister .... 
Lawyer .... 
Minister .... 
Minister .... 

Business .... 
Business. . . . 


John Lawrence Keller 

Evan Mohr Landis 

Henry Mohr Landis 


Frederick A. Libbey 

Tohn C Life . ... 


Benjamin W. Mitchell 

Russell W. Moore 

David Percy Morgan 

John G. Murdcck 


Teacher .... 
Chemist .... 
Business .... 
Teacher .... 
Business. . . . 
Lawyer .... 
Minister .... 
Physician .. . 
Minister .... 

Farmer 

Business. . . . 
Lawyer .... 
Lawyer .... 
Business. . . . 
Minister .... 


4326 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

641 Washington St., New York City 

Harrison, N. Y. 

1827 7th Avenue, Troy, N. Y. 

2415 Howard Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

7 1 Broadway, New York City 

Westminister, Allegheny, Penna. 

1739 N. 17th St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Atlantic Highlands, N. J. 

Millwood, Clarks Co., Va. 

Plainfield, N. J. 

253 Broadway, New York City 

450 Marshall St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

30 Vincent Street, Cleveland, O. 

58 Willet Street, Albany, N. Y. 

Baltimore, Md. 


William Church Osborn 


William E. Parke 


John E. Parmley 

Edward Coleman Peace 

Frederic A. C. Perrine 

Robert D. Petty 

Furman S. Phillips 

Latimer H. Prescott 

Charles Alex. Richmond 




Lawyer . . . . 
Business. . . . 

Actor 

Physician . . . 

Minister .... 


Calvert Bldg., Baltimore, Md. 

13 S. 2ist St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

105 W. 76th Street, New York City 

105 W. 76th Street, New York City 

Dedham, Mass. 

405 West 14th Street, New York City 

80 New Street, New York City 




Edwin Milton Royle 

Sinclair K. Royle 

Edward Huntting Rudd 

Frank B. Rue 


William E.Russell 


Business . . . . 
Minister .... 
Minister .... 
Lawyer . . . . 
U.S. Custom 
House. . . . 
Business. . . . 
Business. . . . 
Business . . . . 




270 Main Street, Oneonta, N. Y. 
Menands, Albany, N. Y. 
Haverford, Pa. 


Frederick N. Rutan 

William C. Scott 






Robert F. Shanklin 

John Rieman Smyser '. 

Robert Wade Speir 


New Orleans, La. 
107 Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. 
3952 Lancaster Avenue, Phila., Pa. 
Bowling Green, Ky. 



203 



ROLL AND LATEST ADDRESS OF CLASS 



Name 


Occupation 


Residence 








James T. Sweetman, Jr 


Physician . . . 

Lawyer 

Business .... 
Physician . . . 
Journalist . . . 

Lawyer 

Business .... 
Lawyer .... 
Teacher . . .. 
Business .... 
Business. . . . 
Physician. . . 

Lawyer 

Teacher . . .. 
Business. . . . 
Minister .. . . 
Publisher . .. 
Engineer. .. . 


25 Front Street, Ballston Spa, N. Y. 

532 Monadnock Block, Chicago, 111. 

15 Clinton Place, New Rochelle, N. Y. 

1 1 Halsey Street, Newark, N. J. 

Paris, France. 

Steubenville, Ohio. 

137 E. State Street, Trenton, N. J. 

Bucyrus, Ohio 

182 Delaware Avenue, Albany N. Y. 

Box 732 Bluefields, W. Va., 

13th and Market Streets, Phila., Pa. 

Newark, N. J. 

Chester, S. C. 

Saltsburg, Pa. 

4 Bridge Street, Jacksonville, Fla. 

Moorestown, N. J. 

289 Fourth Avenue, New York City 

1 1 Pine Street, New York City 


William J. Taylor 

Henry A. Towle 


Charles Vance Thompson... . 

William M. Trainer 

Hartley T. Updike 


Edward Vollrath 


Mindo G. Vulcheff 


Francis R. Wadleigh 

Thomas B. Wanamaker 

Aaron C. Ward 


Franklin D. Whitlock 

Andrew W. Wilson, Jr 

Charles G. Wilson 

Frank Churchill Woods 

Robert Sterling Yard 







TWENTY YEARS AFTER 



83's EX-MEMBERS— SUPPOSED ADDRESSES 



Name 


Occupation 


Residence 


John M. Barclay 

Wallace M. Bell 


Business. . . . 
Business. . . . 
Business. . . . 
Business. . . . 
Physician . . . 

Engineer. .. . 
Minister .... 


Care Barclay Bank, Greenburg, Pa. 

Chicago, 111. 

Auburn Park, N. J. 

Kingston, Pa. 

183d St. and St. Andrew's Ave., N. Y. 

City 
Stanley Electric Co., Pittsfield, Mass. 
W. Hoboken, N. J. 
West Park, N. Y. 


James E. Burt 

George P. Cooper .'.... 

Gustavus C. Darlington 

Daniel Dodd, Jr 


Charles Alex. Evans 

Theophilus A. Gill 


H. P. Gilmore 


Minister .... 
Engineer. .. . 
Business. . . . 
Business. . . . 
Business .... 
Journalist . . 
Physician . . . 
Business. . . . 




W. H.Gulick... . 




W. R. Gulick 


Care V. B. Gulick, Princeton, N. J. 


A. Hardcastle 


Gilbert W. Ireland 




William B. Kirby 


Bridgeton, N. J. 
Boonton, N. J. 
Trenton, N. J. 


William H. C. Lee 

Charles Wesley Lynde 

Samuel W. McClure 


Norwood B. Mitchell 

Phil P. Peace 


Business. . . . 
Business .... 
Business. . . . 

Business. . . . 


Sheldon, Ransom County, N. D. 
Philadelphia Club, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Care Proctor & Gamble, Cincinnati, 

0.; House, Glendale, O. 
316 Baronne St., New Orleans, La. 
Wilmington, Del. 
16 South St., Baltimore, Md. 
Johnson City, Tenn. 


William Cooper Proctor 

Charles P. Richardson 


Samuel M. Shoemaker 

B. F. Wade 


Lawyer 


William Welch 


Otto W. Weyer, Ph. D 


Lawyer 


754 Main Street, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Princeton, N. J. 

Care J. W. Sheridan, 56 Duane St., 
Cor. Elm St., New York City 




Business. . . . 





205 



